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Hi Waggers, it would be great if you have a chance to take a look at the new editors I recommended to you. Thank you! I would also help invite some new members, but they are not the ones on this list. Bobo.03 (talk) 20:15, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-02

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

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Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
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- The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
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es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" Beta feature). [1][2][3][4]

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The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [5][6]
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Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [11]
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Hiding quotes by Sally Miller Gearhart

Could you please elaborate why we should censor out her controversial statements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kartu (talk • contribs) 08:25, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Kartu: Hi Kartu. First up, we should definitely not censor her statements - Wikipedia is not censored. But we do have to be very careful to make sure that any controversial statements relating to a living person are properly sourced and referenced. Also we need to ensure that our articles read well, so inserting a controversial statement randomly into an article is not constructive. By all means, write a properly sourced, separate paragraph or section - but please take the time to make sure it is well researched, properly referenced, doesn't give undue weight to the controversy and the article flows well and maintains a neutral point of view. Hope that helps. Waggers TALK 08:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for the quick reply, Waggers. Based on it I'm still confused what the issue actually is, as you mention several:
        * Is it "not properly sourced" (edit history shows that that has been addressed already) 
        * Does not suggestion to reduce population of one gender to 10% not important enough, to be included in summary? 
        * This part is clearly not neutral POV: "Gearhart does not base this radical proposal on the idea that men are innately violent or oppressive", we don't know, what she is basing it on, "male-bonding" being particularly "dangerous", is not mutually exclusive with men being "innately violent or oppressive".