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A New Year With Women in Red!
 
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Non-urgent, no rush on this, just whenever you get around to it. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:41, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Technical news
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
This Month in GLAM: December 2020
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This Month in GLAM: December 2020
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Happy New Year, Katie. I am a retired admin. Since the admin who deleted this has been blocked by you, I'd like to ask you if I could create a redirect to another article, possibly George Chauncey, who popularized the phrase. Bearian (talk) 19:49, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
Please restore this page
As an officer of KOE, I give permission to use the copyright material from KOE. Please restore this page, I would be happy to update it as well. 09:10, 18 March 2008 KrakatoaKatie talk contribs deleted page Kehilat Orach Eliezer (G12: Blatant copyright infringement: http://www.koe.org/welcome.htm - all versions tainted, no assertion or permission after 6 weeks). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.172.230.152 (talk)
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Books & Bytes - Issue 42
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020
- New EBSCO collections now available
- 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
- Library Card input requested
- Libraries love Wikimedia, too!
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February 2021 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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Arbitration
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people
, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!
Hope you're doing okay
Hey, Kk! Best wishes that your health issues resolve soon. —valereee (talk) 22:02, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks – my father and daughter are both quite ill and that's where my time will be spent for the foreseeable future. I'll be back when I can. :-) Katietalk 22:20, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Valentine Greets!!!
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Valentine Greets!!! |
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Hello KrakatoaKatie, love is the language of hearts and is the feeling that joins two souls and brings two hearts together in a bond. Taking love to the level of Wikipedia, spread the WikiLove by wishing each other Happy Valentine's Day, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Valentine Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
I can’t wait
Until you are off ArbCom so you can join Ponyo and me in the active old-CUs club. How I’m old after 3 years is beyond me. Maybe if we’re lucky DoRD will come back. Anyway, you’re great, hope life is getting better. My email is always open, and thanks for being a voice of sanity on ArbCom. I’ll go ahead and say most of the active CU team has an appreciation for you more than you could possibly realize. You’re the best of us, and thanks for sticking with it. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:40, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Yup.-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 23:23, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
March 2021 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
Technical news
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
Arbitration
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 42
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021
- New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
- 1Lib1Ref
- Library Card
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April editathons from Women in Red
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block of Nighitngalesucks by indefinitely blocked admin User_talk:Edgar181
hello,
I noticed that indefinitely blocked admin User_talk:Edgar181 blocked user:nightingaleuscks for only 1 edit. Can you review the logs? Was there something else that this user did to deserve this block? If this is it, then I think that this user should be reinstated with an apology. I dont know. Please share your thoughts. Thanks. User:KrakatoaKatie Infinitepeace (talk) 01:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
- Seriously? Provocative username with an intentional misspelling to get around the blacklist. Then the only edits – you missed the one in the filter log – were to Nightingale College to add derogatory material. Edgar181 might have deserved his own punishment, but this block is appropriate. Also, for future reference, unblock appeals have to come from the blocked person, not a proxy or friend or other interested party. If they want to be unblocked, there are clear instructions in the message they receive when they try to edit. Katietalk 21:22, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
We miss you
and hope things get a bit better in your life soon <3 KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 18:54, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:25, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
Administrator changes
Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
Technical news
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
Arbitration
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
May 2021 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamed tosuppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.
- The user group
Arbitration
- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
Books & Bytes – Issue 43
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021
- New Library Card designs
- 1Lib1Ref May
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:11, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Definition of 3RR bright-line rule
Hi!
The bright-line rule of edit-warring (3RR policy) includes this text:
An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period.
How should one interpret "whether involving the same or different material"
and specifically "or different material"
when counting the number of reverts? Thanks, Politrukki (talk) 21:59, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) If you are asking how you should treat the rule as an editor who doesn't want to be in breach of it, you should interpret it as broadly as possible. 3RR is just one application ofthe edit warring policy, you can be blocked even if you technically haven't violated it. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:37, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, that does not help me much.First, what you write sounds reasonable, but it's not new info for me.Secondly, I'm not asking
"as an editor who doesn't want to be in breach of it"
, but rather as an editor who doesn't want others to breach 3RR. I'm under self-imposed 1RR – with few exceptions (not to be confused with 3RR exemptions) – but that's a secret. My question was specifically about bright-line violations. Politrukki (talk) 11:50, 12 May 2021 (UTC)- Well, a bright-line violation with the same material is obvious – we see it every day in these silly revert-revert-revert edit wars. The 'different material' phrase is there because sometimes they'll add a sentence to their edit and claim that because it's not exactly the same that it doesn't count as a revert. Or they'll slightly rephrase, or rephrase entirely with an identical meaning... you get the idea. As Beeblebrox says, the best advice you can give someone is to not edit war at all. Katietalk 14:14, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, that does not help me much.First, what you write sounds reasonable, but it's not new info for me.Secondly, I'm not asking
June 2021 at Women in Red
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Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021
Greetings,
I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 27 June, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.
Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 15:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 11:15, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
Administrator changes
Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless- Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)
Guideline and policy news
- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
Technical news
- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
Arbitration
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
Happy First Edit Day!
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 00:48, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
July 2021 at Women in Red
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