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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- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded.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.
Books & Bytes – Issue 49
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Issue 49, January – February 2022
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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
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- 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.
New administrator activity requirement
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Any info on ORDER OF EASTERN STAR?
I just acquired some really cool stuff from the order and few names curious about..thanks 47.201.8.250 (talk) 18:15, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
BaltimoreLink images and LocalLink 80 clarifications
Re: your comment on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents about my bus edits, I would like to address it, but that page is not related.
Can you link me to the image which is mis-attributed? There is a bug in the way the Mapillary API version released last year that broke user attributions, so it's easy to see how that happened, but I need to know which one so that I can fix it. (See the recent posts in this query for documentation on the bug, I try to keep track of these things but it is helpful to know if something slipped through the cracks so I can tell which particular areas are likely to have several authors with overlapping sequences: https://forum.mapillary.com/search?q=image%20author)
I would contend that the quality concern you raised about the pictures is not relevant here. The pictures I have uploaded are higher resolution than the "decent" pictures which depict routes which don't exist anymore. The one for CityLink Gold was carefully selected to show a stretch of North Avenue which was resurfaced in 2021 specifically for the bus route, which wouldn't have been in older pictures. (It also shows it at a critical point on the route, where it connects to North Avenue rail station).
The fact that the resolution is higher means that there is much more room to do crops and color touch ups to improve the visibility/clarity while retaining the text on the destination ticker and that sort of things. If you have specific feedback as to which images could use those touch ups, that would be helpful. I am linking some examples of the type of color and cropping touch ups I typically do, but bear in mind that color touch ups in particular can be quite time consuming so those wouldn't get done right away. The uploads here of the "Weathering Steel" are not ideal, but it is difficult to get a good picture of because of position + poor lighting positions. The second image is what I was able to produce with some color replacement techniques to make it look as close to it does in real life as I could.
That's the best example of how color correction specifically can be useful, but there are some post-touch up images that had better starting points that look better (see my Mondawmin, Reisterstown, and JHU station images for example).
I will work on the description for the LocalLink 80 article but know that there are quite a lot of updates to make across the articles for each route so it will take time to get to them all. The biggest reason they have to be moved before the bodies are changed is because the number changes mean that there would be naming conflicts if they were changed one at a time first. Old 29 and current 29 are completely different so you would have to deal with there being two "29" articles if you did them separately without moving them first. It gets hairy in a number of ways with out changing the titles first; "stranded" and duplicate route articles that represent short lived alternate forms of other routes from the old system should really be incorporated into the article for the route they are connected to, which is much harder to do without applying updates across the system first.
The LocalLink 80 route also does not look like current route 91 on the MTA website as you suggested, it is maybe vaguely in the same cardinal direction but they are definitely not the same route. The current 80 serves the Garrison Boulevard corridor, which is not covered by the current 91 at all. You also have to bear in mind that with bus routes, the designations are not solely based on streets and stops, but the time table as well. One of the most notable features of the 80 is it is one of the highest frequency routes in the city, where as the 91 runs a much lighter schedule and has significantly less passenger demand.
Cheers --Middle river exports (talk) 00:40, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- Alright, I've spotted the attribution error, it was kylejamal's image of the 80 route. I've fixed that now, thanks for finding. That shot of Garrison is very good so I think it only needs some lighting touch ups really. You have to make compromises with transit photographs because obviously these are moving targets, people just record their sequences on auto-capture to get as much as possible. Cosmetic changes can come later.
- It's likely I'll come across a better GD picture at some point, the topography of that intersection makes things a bit weird. It's two bridges on top of each other and a train track sandwiched in between so it's hard to get everything in view. The other places that would work really well for that route are Berea and Walbrook. Middle river exports (talk) 01:44, 7 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.
Proposed deletion of Lie Detector (TV series)
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Nomination of Lie Detector (TV series) for deletion
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