Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
Featured Article Save Award
![]() | On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, Vanamonde93! Your work on J. K. Rowling has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. I hereby award you this Featured Article Save Award, or FASA. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 18:46, 4 June 2022 (UTC) |
- Thanks Nikkimaria, much appreciated! Vanamonde (Talk) 19:06, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Events in the evolution of snake venom
Hi Vanamonde93, I'm sorry to notice that you've decided to remove the evolutionary tree here rather than update it. It certainly made the article more readable. It's hard to imagine that updating it to reflect whatever scientific developments you are concerned about would be particularly difficult - we only need to rearrange the tree or add a branch or two... do let me know what the problem is and I'll take a look at it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:40, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hey Chiswick Chap, nice to hear from you. If the revisions were simply an issue of topology within the existing tree, I wouldn't have removed it; the trouble is the scientific consensus has shifted away from a single evolutionary origin for snake venom, toward a multiple origin scenario. We could still have a phylogeny showing venomous snakes, but it would need to be constructed entirely from scratch, and also the protein gain-loss scenarios are, of course, no longer appropriate. I haven't had the time to make a new phylogeny; but I knew the one we had didn't reflect consensus any longer, and removing it seemed appropriate. Vanamonde (Talk) 16:55, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Um, thanks. Ideally we'd make a new tree from a single source that effectively proposes a phylogeny (with however many points of origin). Do you have a shortlist of papers I could consult to make a tree? (the fewer the better!) Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:59, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- I think this is the most recent comprehensive phylogeny, but I haven't time to parse literature in detail I'm afraid, still traveling with limited time...Vanamonde (Talk) 17:02, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- OK, I'll take a look at it and maybe you'll see a tree when you get back to your desk ... Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:27, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, much appreciated! Vanamonde (Talk) 19:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Actually, I've drawn the phylo tree of the *animals* in no time, but it'll take some research to work out what *events* are relevant and where to place them as the old events D, E, F may now be wrong (split up or repositioned). Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:22, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, much appreciated! Vanamonde (Talk) 19:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- OK, I'll take a look at it and maybe you'll see a tree when you get back to your desk ... Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:27, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- I think this is the most recent comprehensive phylogeny, but I haven't time to parse literature in detail I'm afraid, still traveling with limited time...Vanamonde (Talk) 17:02, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Um, thanks. Ideally we'd make a new tree from a single source that effectively proposes a phylogeny (with however many points of origin). Do you have a shortlist of papers I could consult to make a tree? (the fewer the better!) Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:59, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
June GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles. Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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