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Tech News: 2023-38

MediaWiki message delivery 19:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-39

MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-40

MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-41

MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-42

MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-43

MediaWiki message delivery 23:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-44

MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-45

MediaWiki message delivery 21:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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

Administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef
readded Tamzin
removed Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

added Pppery
removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous


Tech News: 2023-46

MediaWiki message delivery 23:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-47

MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-48

MediaWiki message delivery 23:07, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

  • Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Tech News: 2023-49

MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
  • The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
  • Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

Tech News: 2023-50

MediaWiki message delivery 02:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-51

MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Tech News: 2024-02

MediaWiki message delivery 01:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-03

MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-04

MediaWiki message delivery 01:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-05

MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 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


Tech News: 2024-06

MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-07

MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08

MediaWiki message delivery 15:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-09

MediaWiki message delivery 19:21, 26 February 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


Tech News: 2024-10

MediaWiki message delivery 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11

MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-12

MediaWiki message delivery 17:38, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13

MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 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.

Tech News: 2024-14

MediaWiki message delivery 03:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-16

MediaWiki message delivery 23:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

MediaWiki message delivery 20:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 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 16:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-20

MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)