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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).
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- Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
- Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
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- The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
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hallo Firefly, the lintertables has two new categories, but your tool dosent show them. It would be nice if you can expand the tool for special:LintErrors/duplicate-ids (high priority), the other one Special:LintErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color is not that nessesary. Lómelinde (talk) 09:15, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- I oppose the addition of the Duplicate IDs category. It has too many unfixable false positives right now. It is also unclear whether the dark mode issues can or should be fixed in all cases. Please discuss at Wikipedia talk:Linter. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:20, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- This might be in en:wp, but in de:wp I do think we would manage most of the doubled ID problems (only coordinate ids would be a problem). My intention for the request is to update our statistic with reliable numbers, there is one Editor who calls us for lying because we do not yet put the numbers into the statistic see here. And I do not like to be called a liar. But the numbers in the specialpages are not valid (once they show 667.171 errors [same in both categories] at other times there are actualy 233.058 duplicate ids, so wich number of errors is correct?), only fireflytool shows usable (trustable) numbers of errors. I do not know how to get reliable numbers in any other way. For darkmode i agree, this is to much and too inprecise analised. But even there we managed to reduce the errores by several million. --Lómelinde (talk) 06:11, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
Tamping Issue
[edit]FireFly can you help me restart the Hip Hop Movement article, Thank you Street sting (talk) 14:28, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
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Firefly Bot
[edit]Hey, Firefly,
I run into instances where Firefly Bot hasn't notified editors at 5 months about an expiring draft but I usually forget the name of the draft. This time, I noticed that no notice was posted to the creator of User:GirlhoodStudies123/sandbox so I thought I'd bring it to your attention. It looks like you aren't active right now but I'll still post this here. I'll post if I see more examples but this might just be happening for User space drafts. Liz Read! Talk! 02:19, 26 October 2024 (UTC)