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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

added Clovermoss
readded Dennis Brown
removed

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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DatGuyTalkContribs 18:14, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy New Year, AmandaNP!

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages. --MDK-Fan 23:12, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Amanda, it's me again. Is the bot working correctly, or are there still issues? It looks like it worked only for 20 minutes the last time you fixed it. Also Happy New Year Nobody (talk) 09:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

-_- I'm unlikely to have time to review before the weekend...I'll see if I just stupidly forgot something tonight, but otherwise it'll be on hold. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:54, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
@1AmNobody24: Thank you. I made a silly mistake implementing the last fix. After this run, I'll reenable the automatic one, and please let me know if it stops again. -- Amanda (she/her) 06:38, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Looks good. I'll keep an eye out to see if it keeps working. Thanks for the timely fix. Nobody (talk) 07:48, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi @AmandaNP, could you check if it's still working? There haven't been new listings for 10 hours now. Nobody (talk) 16:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC) nevermind it's listing again.Nobody (talk) 17:48, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Adminship Nomination

Hi @AmandaNP,

I recently saw your nomination of @Red-tailed hawk and was wondering if you could take a look at my page and see if I qualify. This would be extremely helpful. If you have any criticism, feedback, critiques, comments, etc. please let me know. I would really appreciate this. Please let me know as soon as you can.


Thank you,

@Avishai11

Avishai11 (talk) 01:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

My comments would fall in line with WP:TOONEW. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:10, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Ok, thank you! Avishai11 (talk) 23:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Your other username and old usernames on discussion messages

Hello Amanda,

As I changed my username from Breathinkeeps32 12 hours ago, did you change your name from DeltaQuad to AmandaNP (your main account) at some point? This is because on your old discussions, it still links to User:DeltaQuad, which is an alt account but normally, they redirect to the new username. So basically on old discussions, the username does not change (but newer discussions will) so I still see my former username in existing discussions. Is that correct? JuniperChill (talk) 13:35, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Correct. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:49, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Great, thank you for the help Amanda. Your the best! (and loved the fact I got them all right!) JuniperChill (talk) 23:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

CheckUser changes

removed Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
  • Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous


Hello, Amanda,

Typically, at about 02:00 UTC, DeltaQuadBot fills up Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old needing human review with files that need additional review by a human editor. But nothing showed up today so I'm just checking in on the Bot and making sure everything is working fine. DeltaQuadBot somestimes adds images to this category at different times of the day but the main bunch of files arrives at 02:00 UTC so it's unusual that there was nothing tonight. Many thanks for all that you do on the project! Liz Read! Talk! 03:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Liz: The bot does run every 4 hours, but is contingent on there being files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old. If people don't put them there to begin with, they won't process. I ran the bot, it had zero errors and the category is empty. I'm not sure if one person works later in the night and puts them in the category for mass processing for that time or if a bot does, but my first sense is to say working as intended from the bots viewpoint. -- Amanda (she/her) 04:09, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Did my IP change after moving?

Note, please do not give my IP address here, just say if it changed or not.

Hi Amanda,

I just moved houses around 3 February (where I took a one week pause from editing - my edit history) and idk remember what my IP address was so has it changed? I have never edited anywhere outside my current and former house as I do not edit from my phone. When I moved, it was only a 15 min walk away meaning I still live in the same city the east of England (Norfolk). I also never edited while logged out. In other words, I have only edited from this account on a PC.

I also love it when my current IP is far from accurate as it shows that it comes from London, around ~ 100 miles (160 km) away. But hey, at least it got the country/state (UK and England respectively) correct. JuniperChill (talk) JuniperChill (talk) 13:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I would not give your IP address out as it's against many different policies, but barring security concerns, we don't really run checks just to check things out on accounts. 99% of the time (if your UK based network is not dynamic as hell) when you move, you would get a new IP address. -- Amanda (she/her) 14:00, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
So WP:Checkusers are there only/mostly if there is a concern ? Which explains the main purpose of a checkuser is for WP:sockpuppet reasons or other concerns, rather than what I just did since almost all of my edits were not problematic and I also don't have another account. JuniperChill (talk) 15:27, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) @JuniperChill: If you know your old IP, you can get your current IP at whatismyipaddress.com. - FlightTime (open channel) 15:40, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) also Wikipedia:Get my IP address. — xaosflux Talk 16:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Basically, but I also forgot what the other talkpage stalkers said as I was super tired when I replied last night. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:36, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hello Amanda NP. This is in regards to File:Robert Shulman (serial killer).jpg. I uploaded that image 10 years ago, then it looks like someone came along a week ago and uploaded a new large-sized version against the non-free rules. So, a bot adjusted his version down to size and then your bot deleted my original. Do you know if there is anyway to just reinstate my version of the image? It's not a big deal but still. It doesn't show up in my uploaded images anymore. Thanks, ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 02:59, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

It would have to be the active image in order to do so. See the reasoning on Template:Orphaned non-free revisions. -- Amanda (she/her) 04:45, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous


Precious anniversary

Precious
Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:39, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Happy Bureaucratship Anniversary!

DQP bot glitch

Just a notice that your bot may have glitched. It flagged a username (CaptainUnderpantsLover) under "derp" and this seems incorrect. Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 02:46, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mseingth2133444: Please see User talk:AmandaNP/UAA/Whitelist#Instructions. -- Amanda (she/her) 13:17, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Unblock table

Your bot seems to have missed the unblock request on User talk:Plutonical. It was posted on 5 February 14:48, but it wasn't added at 15:00. It's still not there. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:17, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Issue was much bigger than was thought, with a total of 26 entries missing. The issue is now fixed and pushed to the server. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Can you make your bot undelete an older revision of this file?

Hi. I'm here to ask for moving this file to Commons. I've relicensed under public domain because it's too simple for protection. Files for moving to Commons must have all revisions exist, and it's missing the first revision uploaded by Vacant0. Can you use your bot for undeleting it? If yes, I'm very pleased for moving free files to Commons! Kys5g talk! 02:57, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

I can't use my bot to do it no, but if you can get a commons admin (or recognizable SME in the area of PD-textlogo) to sign off that this is sufficiently meets that standard as I don't have the knowledge to tell, then I will happily make it available from my regular account. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Oh, my fault. I though while bots can delete older revisions when unnecessary or unused fair use (CSD F5), bots can also restore revisions in place; but I was wrong, only their owners can undo these deletions. Thanks for your explanation! Kys5g talk! 04:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @Kys5g: The file cannot be moved to Commons because it's above threshold of originality in Poland, its country of origin. I have updated the description page accordingly. It's an SVG so the size is just numbers in the file for how the computer should show it by default—in reality the file is essentially infinite resolution. So the revision doesn't have to be restored. It can be though. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 03:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Then can you explain why did PZ's JPEG logo exist on Commons? Kys5g talk! 04:27, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
It's not supposed to. I've put it up for deletion. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 04:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

JayCubby blocked as sockpuppet

2 days ago, you globally locked BMX is on wikibreak right now! as an LTA. Yesterday, JayCubby, the creator of that account, was blocked for sockpuppetry by Primefac. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:30, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

This is a very puzzling situation cause I feel like I want to AGF, but there is too much here to use AGF, so I've processed a lock in the meantime. -- Amanda (she/her) 02:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Deprotect the redirect page for 9/11

I know WP:WHATABOUT exists (it’s mainly for page deletion but still) but when it comes to page protection and if you’re not trying to compare how “controversial” the things are it’s fine. The page for the actual September 11th attacks that it redirects to are semi protected, so a redirect page that goes to that shouldn’t have extended confirmed protection, especially since it has only been edited a few times since the protection went on (which is a reasonable amount for a redirect page). I propose a trial deprotection of the 9/11 redirect page and, if vandalism returns, raise the level to what you see fit. CharlieEdited (talk) 21:19, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I have several concerns about this. 9/11 has been subject to alternate theories in the past and currently falls under AMPOL CT. Given this is also the year of an election, and disinformation campaigns that have occurred more and more as of recent, I don't think this is good timing either. And beyond that, the talkpage gives a good indication of how unprotection could go wrong, even if it's not related to a page move. I don't see a balanced argument to deprotect it until at least after the election without a more valid reasoning. If you are wishing to edit the redirect, forming consensus and/or using the edit request would be a good idea. -- Amanda (she/her) 02:41, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
I am not talking about the page for the actual attacks. I am talking about the redirect page. Redirect pages almost never get more vandalism than the page they redirect to, so it makes no sense for the redirect page that is named 9/11 (which is the one I am referring to) to have a higher level of protection than the page it goes to. CharlieEdited (talk) 16:43, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
(Amanda, you are welcome to leave your own reply but I am also giving my own as I am a (talk page stalker)). I think the reason why redirect pages may have a higher protection than its target is because the target pages needs to be edited every now and then, but for redirect pages, there is usually no good reason to. You could either wait until you reach 500 edits, or better yet, do an edit request. Plus, people may do a cut and past move so I see why the redirect needs to be protected.
See the redirect page for kiev as an example. The redirect page is fully protected but the target page kyiv is ECP protected. I am almost ECP myself (480 edits). See Wikipedia:Redirect#protection:
Sometimes, a redirect to an article pertaining to a very controversial topic will be fully or, more rarely, semi-protected indefinitely. This is done when any of the following criteria are met:
*There is no reason for it to be edited
  • It is frequently expanded into whole articles
  • It is an obvious vandalism target
  • It redirects and/or refers to a very controversial topic
IMO, it meets criteria 1, 3 and 4, so its clear why it is protected. Also, 9/11 is actually included in that section so that page will need to change should it be unprotected. JuniperChill (talk) 17:06, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Fair. I wasn’t even interested in editing it anyway but I just got caught up in the fact that I keep trying to lower protection on certain pages, (namely Roblox which I still think should go back to semi but Ferret said no and the only real argument against it was “JuSt WaIt To EdIt It”), because for many articles their protection stays way after it’s necessary from admins forgetting about it. CharlieEdited (talk) 17:37, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

For your information

I just saw some vandalism on my watchlist mentioning "Project Ban AmandaNP". Perhaps this is a sockpuppet of someone you encountered before? - ZLEA T\C 04:02, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Another satisfied customer of some sort...no clue who this could be. -- Amanda (she/her) 08:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Nyttend
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

readded Joe Roe

Oversight changes

removed GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Tech News: 2024-19

MediaWiki message delivery 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

IP block on Met Office

Hey @AmandaNP I'm a Wikimedian in Residence working on climate change info. Yesterday I was at the UK Met Office to run an editathon but my group was unable to edit for most of the session due to your IP block on the Met Office. I'm sure there's a reason the block is in place. I wanted to ask if that reason has been resolved and the block can be lifted? Alternatively, would it be possible to lift the block for one day on Friday the 10th of May 2024 (UK time) so that I can do a follow up session with the participants?

Much appreciated! TatjanaClimate (talk) 08:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@TatjanaClimate: I would of course need to know which block this is related too (aka the IP address) but I can understand you not posting it openly. If you could email it to me for review, I can check to see what possibilities exist. -- Amanda (she/her) 12:01, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Email sent! Thanks! TatjanaClimate (talk) 13:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
@TatjanaClimate: This IP does not directly belong to the Met Office. It belongs to IBOSS, which essentially acts as a proxy for many people which is something we have to keep strictly blocked. Can you advise participants to create one from home before they come? That or we might be able to see what ACC could do in real time - but day before the event is really not the time to be organizing this :/ especially since I work 10+ hours days right now. @Stwalkerster and FastLizard4: for additional guideance & help outside hours i'm avail. -- Amanda (she/her) 13:57, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
@AmandaNP is it an anononly block?
ACC might be able to help with this if it's just accounts that are needed, especially if we know a time window where most requests will be coming in so we can keep a closer eye on the queue. The best approach at this point is indeed to get participants to pre-create if possible, or maybe to use something like the Programs and Events dashboard to create the accounts as needed for you. This is all contingent on what type of block is in place though as to whether you'll be able to edit through the block while logged in. stwalkerster (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
@Stwalkerster: Global hard block that I just converted to a soft block, but still going to have issues with account creation even for logged in users last I checked. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:25, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
That's fine, P&E dashboard does account creations via OAuth just like ACC as I understand it. stwalkerster (talk) 05:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Graham Beards
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed

Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


As a heads up, I moved the SPI colors to TemplateStyles invoked in Template:SPIstatusheader, which leaves your custom SPI list colorless. I think that makes your list look nicer since it's pre-separated, but either way, this is to let you know to make an adjustment in the bot to add the stylesheet if you want them back. Izno (talk) 20:51, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Blocking of Japan

Can I request a reason as why you have blocked Japanese mobile services from creating an account?  Augu  Maugu 04:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

i had a friend try to create an account the other day and a “This IP address range has been globally blocked” message appeared.  Augu  Maugu 04:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
@AuguMaugu: I can't give comment without knowing the IP range you speak of. "Japanese mobile services" is a major surface for IPs. -- Amanda (she/her) 17:21, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

DQB and usernames (not) longer than 40 chars

Minor bug report: DQB probably shouldn't consider "attempting to skip filter" for the 40 chars rule. (Example.) jlwoodwa (talk) 07:02, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

@Jlwoodwa: I don't get involved in the day to day administration of the blacklist used for the bot. You are looking for User talk:AmandaNP/UAA/Blacklist and the instructions are on that page. -- Amanda (she/her) 17:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
Ah, sorry, and thanks for the directions. jlwoodwa (talk) 17:26, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Bot error

Hi, It seems like your bot User:DeltaQuadBot made an error in WP:AIU. The name JustaFictionalGoogologist is fine, but your bot marked it as inappropriate. Thanks! Martintalk 02:34, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

@Martinc021: Please see the section above for instructions as I don't handle any of the day to day management of the filters it uses. -- Amanda (she/her) 02:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
ok, sorry Martintalk 02:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

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Tech News: 2024-30

MediaWiki message delivery 00:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration


Why have you blocked me?

I want to know why you have blocked me when I haven't done anything wrong.

Toppmoller Toppmoller (talk) 22:44, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

I assume you are talking about one of my global blocks about a proxy or VPN. I would need the IP address to be able to review anything. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:04, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

MediaWiki message delivery 00:50, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

DeltaQuadBot reporting 3+ year stale account?

Hi. I came across Meddemfund (talk · contribs) today having been reported on the bot listing at WP:UAA. DeltaQuadBot reported it with this diff. I examined the account, saw it was problematic as a group/organization account and that it had edited on behalf of the organization it appears to represent. So, I blocked it. Then... I happened to notice the only edit the account ever made was in January 2021, 3+ years ago. There's no deleted edits, no edit filter log entries. There's nothing to indicate current activity. How is the bot picking up on this account? Stale accounts shouldn't be reported. Thoughts? --Hammersoft (talk) 02:21, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) My guess is that it saw the log entry when that account created a second account ten minutes before DQB reported it. stwalkerster (talk) 17:39, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
That's a good bet. Interesting they would do that. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:40, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Question about DQB

Hi! Over at ANI, Liz pointed out that usernames with the string 'truth' often belong to accounts of problematic editors. Does DQB current send such usernames to UAA like it does with 'yolo' (drawing attention to editors whose usernames aren't themselves violations but are high risk of being disruptive based on the username)? QwertyForest (talk) 20:39, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

User:AmandaNP/UAA/Blacklist contains all the filtering rules, and I haven't maintained the list for a long time, I leave it to those active at UAA per the talkpage on that user page. -- Amanda (she/her) 02:57, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
I've made an edit request on the talk page of the blacklist. Best regards, QwertyForest (talk) 06:53, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

MediaWiki message delivery 18:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

UAA NO_SIM_MATCH bug?

The username "TaxandRealEstateExpert" was recently reported by the bot to UAA because of the reason: "Used x instead of cks attempting to skip filter: long username without spaces. Violating string: tacksandrealestateeckspert". This is despite the fact that the filter in question has had NO_SIM_MATCH attached to it since June, which should have prevented the username from being reported. Is this a bug or is there something I'm missing? Helpful Raccoon (talk) 03:29, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

You aren't missing anything. This is fixed. -- Amanda (she/her) 05:20, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-38

MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

DeltaQuadBot UAA

Hello, DeltaQuadBot has not reported any usernames on the UAA page for the last five days. The last report it posted was on 16 September. Maybe the bot needs a fix. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:31, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

That's my bad. When I made the above fix, I had a tab error. A full run is running now. -- Amanda (she/her) 22:53, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:44, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-39

MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-40

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

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A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Dear AmandaNP, thanks for all you do as an administrator. Keep up the good work! You are making a difference here! With regards, AnupamTalk 01:50, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

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