Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-04-30/News and notes
An action-packed April
Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
30 June 2019
Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
31 March 2019
BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
29 July 2015
Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
8 October 2012
RFAs and active admins—concerns expressed over the continuing drought
14 February 2011
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RfXs
- Primefac filed an RfB on 31 March 2019, a mere 2 weeks after DeltaQuad was promoted as a result of her RfB. Primefac's RfB was closed as successful with a final tally of 151/7/5. This makes 2019 the first year since 2014 with 2 new bureaucrats, and there are still 8 more months to go!
- Bishzilla filed a (serious) RfA for RexxS on 1 April 2019. After a 'crat chat, Dweller closed the RfA as successful. The story continued, however; Pudeo then proceeded to file a request for Arbitration, arguing that the RfA should have been closed as "no consensus to promote" instead. More coverage in the Arbitration report.
- On 12 April 2019, 'crat Wizardman retired from the project. An active editor, he even participated in Rexx's crat-chat.
- Just a few weeks after the last RfA, Ritchie333 and TonyBallioni nominated HickoryOughtShirt?4 for adminship. As of writing, the RfA is still open for discussion.
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April Fools' recap
Additional contributors: Pythoncoder
- As part of Wikipedia's April Fools' Day festivities, a recently created Wikipedia newspaper called TheWikiWizard was nominated for deletion at MfD. Signpost writer DannyS712 also writes for it.
- This year there were 2 successful RfAs: Linguist111 (testing) (closed at <10/9/1>), and DeprecatedFixerBot (closed at <7/13/6>). There was not a single unsuccessful RfA filed on April Fools' Day. RfBs, however, didn't fare as well: while ZLEA2 was closed as successful (with a final tally of <?/?/?>), ClueBot NG was unsuccessful, with their RfB closing at <17/16/12>.
- On the other hand, no humor BRFAs were denied: DeletionBoot was approved for trial, while C-3PO is still pending.
Other publications
The Signpost is not the only active publication here on the English Wikipedia. Other regular distributions include the Administrators' newsletter, the Guild of Copy Editors' reports, the Scripts++ newsletter, and WikiProject Portals' regular updates. Global publications are also available for reading, including Meta-Wiki's Tech News, Wikidata's Status updates, or the French Wikipedia's Wikimag. A new directory includes inactive newsletters and syndications of the Signpost. Editors are encouraged to add missing newsletters to the directory.
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Brief notes
- A new global special page, meta:Special:UrlShortener, was introduced.
- ArbCom accepted its first case since February.
- Three administrators were desysopped due to inactivity in April.
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No mention of the DYK April Fools? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 18:10, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]