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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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

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


17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

15:29, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

AIV helper bot

Hi there, I find it difficult to understand where I should report bugs, as there are apparently several operators, so please direct this to the right place. The helper bot seems to get the formatting of its edit summary wrong in the rare case when a range-partiallyblocked IP gets blocked, see here. Ping to @HighInBC who might also care. —Kusma (talk) 16:29, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Good catch. My development on the bot stopped before range blocks were a thing. I am glad that the development of the bot has continued beyond me. I am not sure who wrote the code responsible for this bug. My current environment is a bit noisy and I am having difficulty achieving the focus I need to concentrate on coding problems at the moment. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 21:58, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

21:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
I appreciate all of your hard work... CocoGT (talk) 17:15, 28 July 2021 (UTC)