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Scope of administrative action review
Just checking in to see if you had any plans on proceeding, or thoughts on how to proceed. I'm having trouble seeing a path forward, since everyone doesn't seem to want to engage at the same time, and some editors want to see progress without their involvement, and I understand the reasons why for both of these. But I don't know how to achieve progress if the interested parties aren't working together to find common ground. It's too hard to figure out in the dark. isaacl (talk) 03:40, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Isaacl, thanks for stopping by. The last time I commented there I figured I would wait a couple of days (it was a Saturday, I think) to see what the people who mostly edit during the workweek had to say, then in the meantime I got pretty slammed IRL and haven’t been here much. I’ll try to peek in and get back up speed on the progress (if any) when things settle down at home a bit. 28bytes (talk) 06:22, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
- AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
- The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-08
19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
Tech News: 2022-09
22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
Tech News: 2022-10
21:14, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Hiding and Deleting Edits
I wanted to ask if you can hide (delete if possible) my edits on the napalm and F.R.A.S. (weapon) page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.R.A.S._(weapon) Basquyati (talk) 00:18, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Basquyati. I might be able to help. Why do you want those edits deleted or hidden? 28bytes (talk) 01:18, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- First, it describes, in a very detailed way, unnecessary information. I don't have a native level of English, so much of the text has grammatical errors. Due to the context between Ukraine and Russia, I don't see those editions with good eyes! If possible, the best thing to do is to delete all my edits. Besides, it's not relevant! Basquyati (talk) 02:15, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- And there is the issue that takes up a lot of space in the edit history. Basquyati (talk) 02:19, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
- Analyzing the information of the consulted articles. Much of it seems biased, and I ended up copying entire texts from articles that I found to be copyrighted and reclaimed. Basquyati (talk) 03:50, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-11
22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-12
15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
Tech News: 2022-13
19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-14
20:59, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentry
anddeletedhistory
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)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
Tech News: 2022-15
19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
New administrator activity requirement
The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
- Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
- Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-16
23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Updates to bureaucrat minimum activity requirements
Hello 28bytes.
Following a discussion at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard, the minimum activity requirements for bureaucrats have been updated to also include the the recently updated minimum editing requirements for administrators (i.e. at least 100 edits every 5 years). This will be enforced beginning in January 2023. Should you no longer wish to volunteer as a bureaucrat you may request removal at SRP and.or let us know at WP:BN.
Best regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:37, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 April 2022
- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
Tech News: 2022-17
22:53, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Prayer for Ukraine
I took this pic in 2009. It was on the German MP yesterday, with this song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Listening to the charity concert mentioned here. I created the articles of the composer and the soprano. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Now, you can also listen on YouTube, and more music, the piece by Anna Korsun begins after about one hour, and the voices call "Freiheit!" (freedom, instead of "Freude", joy). Music every day, pictured in songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
St. Patrick's Day, more music and today's sunset --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
on Bach's birthday: the places where I sang his Dona nobis pacem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
on the Main page, finally + new flowers --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Bach's No. 1 today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Sunday flowers and sounds, don't miss the extraordinary marriage of the beginnings of the theme of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, and Prayer for Ukraine - here! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:37, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
exquisite voice today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
two people on DYK, both connected to Oper Frankfurt, and don't miss yesterday's video of Pink Floyd given to me! - Technical question: where does the extra line below this header come from? It wasn't there last month, and it isn't there in preview. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:23, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Main Page history/2022 April 13: the TFA is hard to overlook, but there are also peace prayers, a soprano and a theatre manager, - if you don't find them try here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
rich in music and memories --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Music for Easter --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
dance and singing, peace doves and icecream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:07, 23 April 2022 (UTC) updated with a more prominent link to how to listen to the concert: Freiheit! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
another Ukraine day today: Maks Levin DYK, expanding Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (have tickets), and creating Anthony Robin Schneider, the bass who could be heard opening the singing in Beethoven's Ninth twice on 10 March 2022, live in Frankfurt, Germany, and recorded in Auckland, New Zealand, singing "Freiheit!" (freedom) instead of "Freude" (joy), in a tradition started after the Fall of the Wall. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Dove sono (Where are those happy moments ...?) - concert with Kyiv orchestra and Aleksey Semenenko (quite a story!) tonight --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
... and now you can listen: Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero & Diana Tishchenko (violin) / Kulturpalast Dresden (25 April 2022 on YouTube (that's 25 April in Dresden, a different violinist, but the same program) - ours pictured here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your post in the crat chat for Tamzin! - I have the quirky DYK today, which is rare, and I don't quite know why music for peace was deemed quirky. - I took and picked the blue-and-yellow pic last year for May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
serious --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
two songs today: Hey Hey Rise Up! (written by friends) and Glauben können wie du, sung by the person I have on DYK today, right below the other. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:45, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
today performances in Ukraine - for Ukraine - for peace, at the bottom an imaginary set of eight DYK - and more May pics--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
today more pics, and should this woman have an article? - or only her sons? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:15, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
today Melody (not by me), and more pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
my choir in Idstein performed an evensong (pictured), two years and two months after the last! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
more music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
today saw my pic of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra on the Main page - blue for you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
June music
Related: that Ukrainian peace music is now "on", with the conductor! - Pentecost (on last Sunday and Monday in Germany) brought a harvest of great music in two church services (one with me singing in choir) and two concerts with my brother in the orchestra, - four pictures I took besides the symphonic one. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for improving articles in June! My song collection is especially rich, look, and the hall where I first heard DFD, Pierre Boulez and Murray Perahia. Do you find the baby deer in the meadow (last row)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Bureaucrat Chat
Your input is requested at the freshly-created bureaucrat chat. Useight (talk) 03:02, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-18
19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Tamzin
RE the crat chat. Consider if instead she'd said "desyssop any Biden supporter". The howls would be never ending and people wouldn't think of promoting her. This is because of the blatant left wing bias wiki has. Anyone even remotely thinking of using their tools in such a bigoted manner should in no way be admin. And promoting such a person, left or right wing, is downright sickening. Seven Pandas (talk) 20:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I am glad that you oppose bigotry. I think most of the participants in that RfA would agree with you that the “desysop Trump supporters” comment was troubling. However, most of the participants also feel that the positive aspects of the candidate outweighed the negative, and ultimately as bureaucrats we have to follow the consensus of those participants as best as we can determine it. 28bytes (talk) 20:53, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I vehemently disagree. She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda. If that's not tool abuse I don't know what is. If she gets the tools, I'm leaving wiki for good, and that's not a threat, that's a guarantee. One day she'll do something to make you all regret this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:26, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Tamzin: only fair I notify her of this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:27, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I’ve redacted part of your comment. You cannot go around calling editors bigots because they disagree with you politically. I’m sorry if you feel so uncomfortable about there being an admin whose politics strongly differs from yours that you wish to leave, but there are of course other outlets available if you prefer editing in an environment more closely aligned to your perspective. 28bytes (talk) 21:45, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Seven Pandas:
She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda.
Please provide evidence for that or strike it. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 21:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda
This is a completely baseless accusation. I hate to sound like a broken record, and stick my nose into various pages saying the same thing, but it is untrue and needs pushback wherever it pops up. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:57, 2 May 2022 (UTC) (p.s. sorry, didn't realize Tamzin was back, and the new reply thingy doesn't give edit conflict notices)- I don't need to she provided the proof herself. And you assumed I'm a Trumper but I'm vehemently not. You all should not have done that. It is what she herself said that I object to. As it's clear wiki is beyond redemption, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ASeven_Pandas&type=revision&diff=1085869391&oldid=1031910638 |see this].Seven Pandas (talk) 22:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think anybody called you a Trumper on this page, or even implied that you were one. I did suggest that if you found the editing environment here uncomfortable for political reasons (which is, I would think, a reasonable interpretation of your statement that you find the site to have
"blatant left wing bias"
) then there are other options for you. I hope you are able to find an environment without the bias you feel exists here. 28bytes (talk) 22:15, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think anybody called you a Trumper on this page, or even implied that you were one. I did suggest that if you found the editing environment here uncomfortable for political reasons (which is, I would think, a reasonable interpretation of your statement that you find the site to have
- I don't need to she provided the proof herself. And you assumed I'm a Trumper but I'm vehemently not. You all should not have done that. It is what she herself said that I object to. As it's clear wiki is beyond redemption, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ASeven_Pandas&type=revision&diff=1085869391&oldid=1031910638 |see this].Seven Pandas (talk) 22:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Tamzin: only fair I notify her of this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:27, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- I vehemently disagree. She's willing to use her tools to foment her political agenda. If that's not tool abuse I don't know what is. If she gets the tools, I'm leaving wiki for good, and that's not a threat, that's a guarantee. One day she'll do something to make you all regret this. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:26, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your thanks
Bishzilla was delighted to be thanked for her superclerking for once; generally she gets told off, not least by me.[41][42] But we all need encouragement, I guess! Bishonen | tålk 22:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC).
- Tonight over dinner I got to watch a bunny trespass in my back yard and start munching on dandelion stalks, and it was every bit as relaxing to watch as a favorite TV show. I wouldn't have dreamed of shooing the bunny away any more than I would shooing a 'zilla away from the Cratz-Only Zone for chowing down on verbal dandelions. 28bytes (talk) 00:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-19
15:20, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.