Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Interface administrator changes
- There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.
- Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.
- Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
Tech News: 2020-50
16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-51
21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Legobot seems to be not doing WP:GAN updates
Legoktm, I thought you should know that the most recent edit at WP:GAN was at 17:22, 16 December 2020. I made a change at 23:58 on one of the article talk pages that would certainly have caused an update, but nothing happened at 00:00 (or over the next couple of minutes), and there have been no updates since. Please check to see what's up with the bot's GAN functionality; I hope you can get it running again soon. Thank you very much! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: The database that Legobot uses went down for maintenance but it should be back now. I just triggered a manual run so it should start working again shortly... Legoktm (talk) 06:00, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-52
20:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2020
- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
- Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
- Gallery: Angels in the architecture
- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
Speedy deletion nomination of 1C:Enterprise
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A tag has been placed on 1C:Enterprise, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Lard Almighty (talk) 13:52, 28 December 2020 (UTC)