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Let voted rules be rules. [[User:Zezen|Zezen]] ([[User talk:Zezen|talk]]) 21:44, 30 June 2019 (UTC) |
Let voted rules be rules. [[User:Zezen|Zezen]] ([[User talk:Zezen|talk]]) 21:44, 30 June 2019 (UTC) |
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== Administrators' newsletter – July 2019 == |
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[[Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter|News and updates for administrators]] from the past month (June 2019). |
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[[File:Admin mop.PNG|20px|alt=]] '''Administrator changes''' |
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:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg|20px|alt=removed|Removed]] [[Special:Permalink/903903052#Desysop request|28bytes]] • [[Special:Permalink/903912191#Resigning (Ad Orientem)|Ad Orientem]] • [[Special:Permalink/901441084#Desysop (Ansh666)|Ansh666]] • [[Special:PermaLink/903924436#desysop request (Beeblebrox)|Beeblebrox]] • [[Special:PermaLink/902976109#Desysop please - Boing! said Zebedee|Boing! said Zebedee]] • [[Special:Permalink/901437827#Desysop request|BU Rob13]] • [[Special:PermaLink/903125555#Desysop request - Dennis Brown|Dennis Brown]] • [[Special:Permalink/904054904#Desysop request – Deor|Deor]] • [[Special:Permalink/904015435#Desysop DoRD|DoRD]] • {{noping|Floquenbeam}}<sup><small>1</small></sup> • [[Special:Permalink/899732215#Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2019#June 2019|Flyguy649]] • {{noping|Fram}}<sup><small>2</small></sup> • [[Special:PermaLink/902880819#Desysop request - Gadfium|Gadfium]] • [[Special:Permalink/903461980#Remove sysop from User:GB fan|GB fan]] • [[Special:PermanentLink/903943689#Desysop request Jonathunder|Jonathunder]] • [[Special:Permalink/903074022#Desysop request -- Kusma|Kusma]] • [[Special:Permalink/903448764#Yes.... (desysop for Lectonar)|Lectonar]] • [[Special:Permalink/899732215#Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2019#June 2019|Moink]] • [[Special:Permalink/903852486#Unable to continue|MSGJ]] • [[Special:Permalink/901492732#Desysop|Nick]] • [[Special:Permalink/900431506#Desysopping of Od Mishehu|Od Mishehu]] • [[Special:Permalink/900580912#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Rama closed|Rama]] • [[Special:PermanentLink/904225604#Desysop Request|Spartaz]] • [[Special:Permalink/899732215#Wikipedia:Inactive administrators/2019#June 2019|Syrthiss]] • [[Special:Permalink/901653463#Desysop (TheDJ)|TheDJ]] • [[Special:Permalink/903537239#Resignation|WJBscribe]] |
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::<sup><small>1</small></sup><small>{{noping|Floquenbeam}}'s access was [[meta:Special:Redirect/logid/31888511|removed]], then [[Special:Diff/901594097|restored]], then [[Special:PermaLink/903895939|removed again]].</small> |
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::<sup><small>2</small></sup><small>{{noping|Fram}}'s access was [[meta:Special:Redirect/logid/31873507|removed]], then [[Special:Diff/903482624|restored]], then [[Special:Diff/903498933|removed again]].</small> |
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[[File:Wikipedia bureaucrat.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Bureaucrat changes''' |
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:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg|20px|alt=removed|Removed]] [[:meta:Special:PermaLink/19175907#28bytes@enwiki|28bytes]] • [[:meta:Special:PermaLink/19173048#WJBscribe@enwiki|WJBscribe]] • [[:meta:Special:PermaLink/19179107#Wizardman@en.wp|Wizardman]] |
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[[File:Wikipedia Interface administrator.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Interface administrator changes''' |
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:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg|20px|alt=removed|Removed]] [[Special:Permalink/903852486#Unable to continue|MSGJ]] • [[Special:Permalink/901653463#Desysop (TheDJ)|TheDJ]] |
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[[File:Checkuser Logo.svg|20px|alt=]] '''CheckUser changes''' |
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:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg|20px|alt=removed|Removed]] [[:meta:Special:Permalink/19177926|Beeblebrox]] • [[:meta:Special:Permalink/19150806#BU Rob13@en.wikipedia|BU Rob13]] • [[:meta:Special:Permalink/19175820#User DoRD@enwiki|DoRD]] |
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[[File:Oversight logo.png|20px|alt=]] '''Oversight changes''' |
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:[[File:Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg|20px|alt=removed|Removed]] [[:meta:Special:Permalink/19177926|Beeblebrox]] • [[:meta:Special:Permalink/19150806#BU Rob13@en.wikipedia|BU Rob13]] • [[:meta:Special:Permalink/19175820#User DoRD@enwiki|DoRD]] • [[Special:Permalink/901535387#Changes to Oversight team|GB fan]] |
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[[File:Green check.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Guideline and policy news''' |
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:* A [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#RfC: Alteration of Account Creation Limits/Account Creator Rights|request for comment]] seeking to alleviate pressures on the [[Wikipedia:Request an account|request an account (ACC)]] process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the [[Wikipedia:Account creator|account creator permission]] on request to new ACC tool users. |
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::*In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the [[phab:T212667|mitigation activity]] completed. |
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:* The scope of [[WP:CSD#G8|CSD criterion G8]] has [[Special:PermanentLink/902425211#Tightening G8 with respect to redirects|been tightened]] such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages. |
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:* The scope of [[WP:CSD#G14|CSD criterion G14]] has [[Special:PermanentLink/902639054#Deletion of redundant (disambiguation) redirects|been expanded slightly]] to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists). |
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:* A [[Wikipedia talk:Office actions#RfC|request for comment]] seeks to determine whether [[Wikipedia:Office actions]] should be a policy page or an information page. |
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[[File:Octicons-tools.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Technical news''' |
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:* The Wikimedia Foundation's [[:meta:Community health initiative|Community health initiative]] plans to design and build a [[:meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019|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. |
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[[File:Info Simple bw.svg|20px|alt=]] '''Miscellaneous''' |
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:* In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) [[:meta:Special:Diff/18886804|changed its office actions policy]] to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop {{noping|Fram}}. This action has resulted in [[WP:FRAM|significant community discussion]], a [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#WJBscribe|request for arbitration]] ([[Special:PermanentLink/904388429#WJBscribe|permalink]]), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an [[Special:PermanentLink/904148460#Open letter to the WMF Board|open letter to the WMF Board]]. |
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I'm out unless and until the foundation repairs it's relationship with this community. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:32, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
salute
The Barnstar of Integrity | ||
Not just for the current nozzlery from the WMF, but for generally being one of Wikipedia's best for a long time. Reyk YO! 20:39, 28 June 2019 (UTC) |
It's getting crowded in here. Time to move to a bigger bar
I'll buy you the next one. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:48, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
- Much respect. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:51, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
- And whether meant or not, Maher's latest tweet, a mere two hours ago, when she's fully aware of this ongoing shitstorm, was to retweet "There are several men in this bar wearing women's names on their backs and good christ that is an amazing feeling." Nice to know she cares so much about the community that she has time for that sort of thing, but no time to respond to us. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:54, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
- These are hard and sad days. Anybody know where they keep the cheap whiskey? -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:54, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
Thanks all for your comments. I really didn't want to do this as I still firmly believe in Wikipedia's purpose and goals, but I have lost all faith in the foundation and I don't want to serve at their pleasure or whim if this is how they are going to treat the folks who actually create and maintain their product. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:32, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
- Sometimes we agreed and sometimes we didn't, but I'm sorry to see you go. --Rschen7754 22:16, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
Thank you for everything. We are here for the mission. We are here our communities. We can, I believe, pull out of this! With respect... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:02, 28 June 2019 (UTC) |
- I really do hope you're right, the community is certainly looking to you to advocate for us on this matter. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:27, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
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Wow. I have no idea what's going on, but this was not what I expected to see when I opened my watchlist today. I hope you're not leaving forever. One of the main reasons I participate in Wikipedia is because I get to associate with so many people from all over the world, who all have such a high degree of morals and integrity, and ideas and values I may not have even considered. I learn a lot from them all, but it was definitely nice to find one who shares that uniquely Alaskan way of thinking. I hope you won't be gone for good, because my watchlist will feel somehow empty. Still, I understand how things can be sometimes, and we all gotta do what we gotta do. I wish you well, Beeblebrox, and hope to see you here again. Zaereth (talk) 23:12, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
- Basically, the back office did something stupid. That's hardly new, but as I always say it is what we do after we make a mistake that's important, and they've basically behaved as though they don't really care and they'll get to it when they feel like it. They've made statements that sound very sensitive and concerned but don't really say anything and they've taken no actual action in the weeks this situation has been unfolding. (actual reportage about this here.)
- As a result a number of admins (about 15 so far) are quitting unless and until there is a tangible change.(or maybe some of them are just never coming back, time will tell) I still hold on to a tiny sliver of hope that this may be resolved somehow in a way that is satisfactory but for now I'm not donating my time and effort to maintain this website.
- Plus it's summer and it just barely smells of smoke so far down here, I got things I can be doing outside. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:38, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
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- it's summer, - some wildflowers of thanks and understanding --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:43, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
A beer for all of y'all
Well now, you too. Thank you for your service. And I see Ad Orientem needs a beer too. And MSGJ. Thank you to all. Drmies (talk) 15:01, 29 June 2019 (UTC) |
Unblockables: excellent article
The June 2019 Signpost brought me here.
Now, the uneasy question: how to avoid such a big (cross it: small) boys club as finely described there? Tiptoeing thru the minefield is not an answer. The admins are for newbies and lurkers, not the other way round. They (=you) are servants, not angry, short-fused, entitled princelings.
I propose that an ANI-originated, democratic, just etc. block stay as such. Not a hint of wheel warring.
Let voted rules be rules. Zezen (talk) 21:44, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).
- 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam1 • Flyguy649 • Fram2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
- 1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
- 2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
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- A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
- In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
- The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
- The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
- A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.
- 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.
- In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.