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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
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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:14, 7 April 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- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion.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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:35, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Sirio
It would probably be best if you leave the unblock discussion to us admins. Thanks, --Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:44, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Deepfriedokra: This is why I didn't want to touch the unblock request in any way. That said, since I have been named directly in both requests, I thought I might at least defend myself slightly, even if what they propose doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of coming to pass. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 02:47, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sometimes the less said, the better. You are making it a personal conflict instead of a cut-and-dried deficient unblock request. Ignore them. Fighting with them will only prove to them that they are right instead of understanding the reasons for their block. Best --Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:52, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- ...you're right. I've certainly my own worries today, not least of which is an election in my home country and some real life work. In any case. I have no plans to intervene further on Sirio's talk page. Let's believe in the snowball's chance, shall we? Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 02:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- I see that Sirio tried goading me into answering their unanswerable question. However, I will not be answering it; I'm washing my hands of all this. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 03:14, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- ...you're right. I've certainly my own worries today, not least of which is an election in my home country and some real life work. In any case. I have no plans to intervene further on Sirio's talk page. Let's believe in the snowball's chance, shall we? Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 02:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sometimes the less said, the better. You are making it a personal conflict instead of a cut-and-dried deficient unblock request. Ignore them. Fighting with them will only prove to them that they are right instead of understanding the reasons for their block. Best --Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:52, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:56, 2 June 2022 (UTC)