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January 2022 with Women in Red
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:02, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Merchandise giveaway nomination
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A token of thanks
Hi KrakatoaKatie! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
Miscellaneous
- The functionaries email list (functionaries-en
lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
How we will see unregistered users
Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.
We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.
Thank you. /Johan (WMF)
18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
February with Women in Red
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Books & Bytes – Issue 48
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021
- 1Lib1Ref 2022
- Wikipedia Library notifications deployed
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --15:13, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppressin around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
Arbitration
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
March editathons
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:37, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
April Editathons from Women in Red
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Books & Bytes – Issue 49
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022
- New library collections
- Blog post published detailing technical improvements
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
User talk:Mayanarichforever
Hello. Just letting you know, regarding a user you have recently blocked Mayanarichforever (talk · contribs) — their page is on my watchlist because I tagged one of their pages for deletion — I've noticed their edits to their talk page since they've been blocked. Seems as if they haven't got the hint, at all, why they were blocked. --DB1729 (talk) 01:59, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- @DB1729: Thanks very much. I spent about twenty minutes suppressing his nonsense the other day – page creation logs, edit filter logs, it was endless – and I almost blocked him then with TPA revoked. He's definitely earned that now. Thanks again. :-) Katietalk 22:36, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
May Women in Red events
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
You made a tiny little mistake :)
Hi! Unfortunately, on May 9th, you protected Steaua București after is was vandalised by Topcalcio/Realnewsnews. Both accounts have been confirmed as a sockpuppet of Goalandgoal. Both accounts are blocked indefinitely. Please restore the info as it was on April 6 (last edited by user The Banner). I also made a request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. And sorry for your health issues. I hope it's nothing serious and you will get well soon :) Dante4786 (talk) 22:07, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
June events from Women in Red
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 09:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Books & Bytes – Issue 50
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022
- New library partner - SPIE
- 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC) (UTC)
Not sure what you mean here??
I was only using bold so that an admin would not miss anything, I'm not sure what you mean by telling me to calm down. Dinosaur TrexXX33 (chat?) 21:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- DINOSAURTREXXX33, I JUST SAW THE AIV REPORT, KRAKATOAKATIE'S RESPONSE AND YOUR MESSAGE HERE AND WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU DON'T MISS THIS MESSAGE: I agree. If the caps lock and bold formatting aren't meant to represent shouting in panic, please don't use them, as they do convey an impression of shouting in panic. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:05, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks. I was very frustrated by this retarded manchild as he has no sense whatsoever. (Excuse my language) Dinosaur TrexXX33 (chat?) 21:07, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- And don't do that either – name-calling is a surefire way to get on my bad side, especially with that word that starts with an R. I hear you, but that's completely unnecessary. The word you're looking for is 'troll'. This is a run-of-the-mill case of trolling. F
- It's okay to get frustrated with someone who edits disruptively. We've all been there. Report them – which you did – and then go do something else. It might take us some time to get to your report. That's fine. Eventually we will get them to stop, by talking to them or blocking them, or they will give up and go away. It's the way of the world. The fastest road to burnout here for you is to get worked up about a troll. We have ways of dealing with trolls, and it might take us a bit to get to it, but they'll either stop on their own or we'll make them stop. Now, if you've never read WP:LAME, go do that, have a laugh, and if this troll starts up again, you know what to do. :-) Katietalk 22:00, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
Technical news
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
Username
Katie, your username is very pretty 💕 AKK700 09:20, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Steaua București
Hi KK, would consider changing the full protection on this page to indefinite ECP? It looks like it's a series of non-EC accounts on one side of the edit war. Last year, this page was full protected from Aug-Nov, and when the full protection expired, non-EC accounts returned to edit warring, which led to your temporary full protection. I think when that expires, the non-EC accounts will return, and so indefinite ECP would be better. Thanks, Levivich[block] 19:14, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Changed to ECP for one year, left move protection at sysop. Turns out those EC accounts are all socks (courtesy ping to RoySmith who did the CU blocks) and sometimes they'll give up after a year or so. Of course, sometimes they don't, but we'll cross that bridge next year if we have to. Thanks and let me know if it starts up again. :-) Katietalk 21:24, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Requesting a deeper range block
For [1], whose disruption goes beyond the topics you've blocked them from editing. Cheers, 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:D869 (talk) 03:28, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- While I agree there's a little bit of disruption, it's not to the level where I want to block a /40 from the wider encyclopedia. I partial-blocked them for topic ban enforcement, not garden-variety vandalism. If you feel differently, please feel free to report them at WP:AIV so another admin can take a second look. Katietalk 12:05, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- I meant to respond sooner, but was distracted. No intention to file a report, as I trust your observations, but I may check in on that range to see if things continue downhill. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:8AC6 (talk) 18:45, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in July 2022
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--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:48, 27 June 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Technical news
user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
BLP vios go bye bye
Nah, you pretty much did what I expected to happen, with the nuking of most of the recent edit history. Thank you very much for that, as well, thank you for the month semi. Hopefully they'll move on by the end of the month. FrederalBacon (talk) 22:50, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Partial block
Hello @KrakatoaKatie! An IP made a very obvious and blantant BLP violation by calling the subject a "terrorist & murdered"; what I assume they meant is "murderer". The page in question is Kyle Rittenhouse, and the diff is here. I was going to report the IP to the vandalism page since they had been partially blocked (by you), but I'm only seeing the one contribution under their user contributions. If they are partially blocked I'm assuming they must have had prior history, or maybe it's part of an IP range block (if that's a thing)? Regardless, wanted to check in with you first given you had blocked them in May from certain pages and wanted to see if you had any thoughts one way or another on me reporting to vandalism page. Thank you! --Kbabej (talk) 22:22, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, range blocks are a thing. ;-) That IP is part of a big Verizon Wireless range block for both arbitration topic ban enforcement and a separate LTA issue. My part of the block is an LTA that has to do with Iron & Wine. Here is their full block log, and you can see the problems we've had with that range.
- This single edit isn't enough to report to AIV. I don't have a problem with adding the article to the partial block if it's necessary, but it's not right now. Just keep an eye on the page – it's probably a drive-by, but we'll find out soon enough if it repeats. Thanks for the vigilance. :-) Katietalk 01:21, 12 July 2022 (UTC)