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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
Interface administrator changes
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- In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
- 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. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.
- The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.
- 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.
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RexxS/Bureaucrat chat
I've opened a bureaucrat chat for a current RfA. Your input would be most appreciated at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RexxS/Bureaucrat chat. Best regards, Maxim(talk) 22:08, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
vocabulary
Regarding this edit: can I ask that you consider using slightly less jarring language? (Perhaps it was chosen deliberately as an echo of the scrutinized edit of the candidate?) I know that the current accepted practice for Wikipedia discussions is quite permissive, so this is just an optional, freely ignorable request. Thanks. isaacl (talk) 22:46, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- I can’t remember in which work of media I heard the term (and Googling for it turned NSFW real quick...)- it was meant to signal camaraderie with the new colleagues but I can see how it could be misconstrued. Thank you for the note. –xenotalk 23:14, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Precious
clear thought and language
Thank you for quality articles, beginning with Highlander: The Game, then Xbox Game Pass and Shotest Shogi (pictured), for super-large-scale global renaming, for creative ubs, for working towards the mandate to create more administrators, - repeating from more than ten years ago and 26 July 2009: you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- An honour! Thank you. Laid the groundwork for the latter ones, but a shame about Highlander not making it to market- I had such plans for my first article! –xenotalk 12:13, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
- I also remember my first well, deleted within minutes ;) - Today, I'm working on an article a friend created, and weeks later it was sent to draft space. Could you perhaps take a look if it's fit to be returned to Main space. I asked RexxS who did it the last time, and JLN who moved, but so far without response. I did it myself for Julia Kleiter, but not to everyone's liking. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:23, 10 April 2019 (UTC)