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GOCE June 2021 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box. Current events Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here. June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June. Drive and blitz reports January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. (full results) February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. (full results) March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. (full results) April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. (full results) May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. (full results) Other news Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Sarah Jeong

Hey, Swarm. I decided to check out the article on Sarah Jeong, and given she left the Times' editorial board in August 2019 and has remained out of the public spotlight since, it seems like the article is far less of a target for vandalism than when you protected it indefinitely in February 2019. Up to you, but I think indefinite semi-protection would be more appropriate at this point, as there doesn't seem to be much if any risk whatsoever of untenable vandalism. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 20:46, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes

Trialpears

AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who

Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AGK • DGG

Oversighter changes

AGK

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:27, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Reconnecting and a quick question

Hi, @Swarm: I just wanted to reconnect and thank you for adding the "autopatrolled/autoreviewer" permission to my account on 23 September 2018. That change that you took care of for me has made life so much easier from an editing standpoint. So, first, I just wanted to thank you for your support because I've been able to create multiple articles without headaches since then. And second, I need to pick your brain because, unfortunately, I've noticed an odd change in the last several months, and am hoping you can provide some guidance. All of a sudden, out of the blue, I've started seeing the old problem of other editors jumping in to make changes to new articles within just a few hours of my having posted them (while I'm still trying to add infoboxes, more cited content, etc.). It has felt like I've been "new page patrolled" again (which isn't supposed to be happening), but when I double checked my account, it still showed that I have autopatrol rights. But because it has now happened with 6 different articles, I kept hunting for an answer. And I finally just found the potential problem - the New pages feed which confirms that those 6 articles were somehow listed for New Page Patrol. You were such a big help to me when I was first granted autopatrol that I thought I'd reach out to see if you can help me figure out why my articles are suddenly being flagged and how this can be fixed. Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. 47thPennVols (talk) 22:15, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

• @47thPennVols: Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I have checked the logs of your recent creations and I can see that there is no record of people formally "patrolling" them. In other words, the articles are still being displayed as "reviewed" and the software is not prompting/allowing people to review/patrol them. Autoreviewers' articles are still listed on the New pages feed with the option to review them. They're simply marked as "reviewed" by default. Nothing stops New page reviewers from reviewing autopatrolled articles if they so choose. Autopatrolled is meant to save them time by allowing them to skip over the creations of trusted creators, i.e. Autoreviewers. It's important to remember as an Autoreviewer, that this permission is meant to ease the New page patrol backlog, not to "protect" your creations from being reviewed or edited. This permission is not meant to effect your editing at all. You do not own your creations, and they are subject to editing from the community from the very moment you publish them. If you want to craft your articles to perfection before they are subject to editing from the community, you will have to do this in your userspace, and not publish them until you are done working on them. I'm unsure as to why you're suddenly having people edit your articles if you have never experienced that before. But it does appear to be people who are looking at the feed and choosing to review autopatrolled articles. You would have to simply ask them why they're doing that, but there's nothing wrong with it if they see improvements to be made. And you should not view that as a "problem" or a "headache". You should appreciate it. Quality content is the only thing that matters, and having Autopatrolled does not mean everything you create is perfect and cannot be improved upon. ~Swarm~ ^{sting} 16:40, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
• Also, I have to say I'm very concerned about this exchange. You appear to be edit warring with a person simply because you do not want them editing your article. Very concerning and grounds for revocation of Autopatrolled. ~Swarm~ ^{sting} 16:43, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes

BusterD

Kees08 • Nickshanks • Protonk • Schissel • Ultraexactzz • Wknight94

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversighter changes

TheresNoTime

ST47

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:19, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

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