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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Clpo13
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news
 * Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections.  and  are reserve commissioners.
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).



Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page.
 * The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
 * The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
 Merry Christmas! ''Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส!'' ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Весела Коледа! Hello, L235! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 01:25, 24 December 2021 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}

Reply to question raised
Greetings L235. Having missed my opportunity to reply to you and in the now closed RfA, I offer my answer here. In my opinion, two options could have served the same collegial end. 1.) would have been the option I chose (and I suspect others may have as well) which was withholding my !vote until and if needed. Do note it was the "apparent rush to pile on" that engendered my ire; not the context of the opposition itself. Or 2.) which, as some did, would have been to thoughtfully express concerns in the "neutral" section as an impediment to support instead of reiterating well enumerated concerns as a good reason to pile on opposition. Sadly, several whom did oppose actually expressed their opposition as an inability to support in spite of the fact that the desired end could have been achieved from the neutral section except for a bit less sting. I simply do not understand why it seems irrelevant to so many good people that a real person, with real human frailty is being affected at RfA by what we do and how we do it, especially in this season and before the ink of RfA reform 2021 has even dried; where so many agreed that RfA toxicity was a real and present danger imperiling Wikipedia herself. In my opinion, we could have done better, and should have.--John Cline (talk) 19:26, 25 December 2021 (UTC) Addendum - I apologize if my answer appears directed to either of you in particular; I assure you, upon the bond of my word, it is not! My lament is, as stated, despair we collectively bear (as a community); desiring better yet helpless and satisfied with want. Merry Christmas and be well.--John Cline (talk) 21:00, 25 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Like you John I had chosen to with-hold my formal vote. But that only works to a point, doesn't it as if everyone withholds their vote then we don't get an accurate gauge of community trust in the candidate. Seeing an editor who done as much good as power go through that is not pleasant. But he seemed determined to show that a plan and strategic approach to RfA was unnecessary.Instead I think he's proven the opposite. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 21:43, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

My statement
Hello L235. I am sorry, been drafting my statement for couple of days bit by bit, and haven't noticed the full protection & notice by the time it was too late.--Darwinek (talk) 01:57, 28 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hey, no worries. Please feel free to email it to the committee if you believe that would be warranted. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 02:39, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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RFA 2021 Completed
The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular, , and for closing the most difficult conversations and for  for closing the review of one of the closes.

The following proposals gained consensus and have all been implemented:
 * 1) Revision of standard question 1 to Special thanks to  for help with implementation.
 * 2) A new process, Administrative Action Review (XRV) designed to review if an editor's specific use of an advanced permission, including the admin tools, is consistent with policy in a process similar to that of deletion review and move review. Thanks to all the editors who contributed (and are continuing to contribute) to the discussion of how to implement this proposal.
 * 3) Removal of autopatrol from the administrator's toolkit. Special thanks to and  for their help with implementation.

The following proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration:
 * 1) An option for people to run for temporary adminship ( proposal, discussion, & close )
 * 2) An optional election process ( proposal & discussion and close review & re-close )

Editors who wish to discuss these ideas or other ideas on how to try to address any of the six issues identified during phase 1 for which no proposal gained are encouraged to do so at RFA's talk page or an appropriate village pump.

A final and huge thanks all those who participated in this effort to improve our RFA process over the last 4 months. This is the final update with no further talk page messages planned. 01:46, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Amalthea • Ihcoyc (deceased) • Kateshortforbob • Kirill Lokshin • Rifleman 82 • Ryan Norton • Wrp103

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Mr. Stradivarius



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Opabinia regalis
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Opabinia regalis
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

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:, , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous


 * The functionaries email list () 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.

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Happy New Year from Wikimedians of Los Angeles!
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How we will see unregistered users
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Permalink to RfPP for Minecraft doesn't appear to go to the right place
Hello! I noticed that when you protected Talk:Minecraft, the permalink you provided to the RfPP doesn't appear to go to the right place as the RfPP for Talk:Minecraft isn't listed in the permalink you provided. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 15:00, 18 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hmmm that's strange, sorry about that. I know there was an RFPP but I can't seem to find it right now. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 15:23, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm able to find it in the archives, however I'm not willing to search through the history of RfPP to find the correct permalink. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 15:24, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah I'm not too worried about it – most protection log entries don't link to RFPP. thanks for catching :-) KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 15:29, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem! Just something I happened to notice while looking at my watchlist to see what happened to the pages I'm watching while I was asleep. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 15:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions topic area changes
In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:
 * Senkaku islands
 * Waldorf education
 * Ancient Egyptian race controversy
 * Scientology
 * Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:
 * India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
 * Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions topic area changes
In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:
 * Senkaku islands
 * Waldorf education
 * Ancient Egyptian race controversy
 * Scientology
 * Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:
 * India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
 * Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 04:36, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg 28bytes

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg 28bytes



Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37 • Galobtter
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss

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  will be renamed   in 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.

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.

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Not super happy
Hi. Not to be argumentative, but just wanting to make a statement: I can't really agree with you forcing me to redact my statement, no. I can't figure out a way to make my point if required to prevaricate, so I removed my entire contribution, and so that's a point of view you all needn't bother about anymore. As to your insult, I sort of don't consider that I'm here to meet your personal expectations? I suppose I could say that heavy-handed power plays that have the effect (tho not the intent I grant) of shutting up voices offering views alternative to the accepted wisdom doesn't meet my expectations for excellent editing, so I suppose we're even.

I do get passionate, yes. I care about the Wikipedia, a lot. I particularly get pissed when editors are harassed, often out of the project, by people who don't understand our founding principles... well, do understand maybe but don't necessarily agree with. New standards aren't necessarily always better standards. At least I get that impression from reading the news from Washington, for instance.

Anyway, "out of touch with current standards" does indicate there's been a sea change, which maybe means moving away from our founding principles. Does that mean it's an Eternal September type situation to some degree? Well, you could s... oh wait, it's not allowed to even suggest that even supposing it's true. At least not in public, right? It is OK to suggest that the members of the class of '05 are hopelessly "out of touch" (I've heard it before) but not the converse, right? I mean I'm kind of getting that impression. Not liking it. Herostratus (talk) 09:27, 4 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi . Thanks for writing. Look, I'm not trying to exclude you from the discussion. Doesn't your note here (the relevant parts at least) show you know how to generally stay on the right side of the line? You didn't have to call anyone a rigid drone (or insinuate that everyone wants those now), or accuse them of not knowing what "we're trying to do here", to make your point well. But you did, and you referenced specific individuals while doing so without supporting evidence. A simple statement that current standards are not necessarily better than old ones would have done fine – it certainly would've been more effective. Arbitration is tough enough on all involved without people gratuitously personalizing the dispute. As arbitrators, we owe participants a healthy environment free of personal attacks (indeed, the community expects it from us). Anyway, I wouldn't recommend posting what you wrote here on ARC verbatim, but you're more than welcome to make your point in a way consistent with the Committee's expectations for arbitration participants. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 19:07, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Bah! Humbug!
I realized right after making that modification to AC/P that I didn't look at the edit notice before proceeding - and sure enough, I wasn't supposed to modify anything. I rolled back my edit... somehow it must not have applied or saved. Weird... Anyways, sorry about that, and thanks for cleaning up my mess! ;-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   04:13, 15 February 2022 (UTC)


 * No worries! and good to see your name :) KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 04:15, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * L235 - And to you as well! Always a pleasure speaking to you! :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   04:27, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
 * The template db-afc-move has been created - this template is similar to db-move when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

uninvolved statements
Hey, Kevin! So, you wrote Personally, the trend of every case request seeing a dozen-plus uninvolved statements no matter how straightforward baffles me a bit. My assumption was that the committee would want to know what the community was thinking. It sounds like perhaps I've made an incorrect assumption? valereee (talk) 14:42, 22 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Heya Valereee, I've seen your message and will get back to you. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:16, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
 * No urgency whatsoever! Just wanted to reach out. valereee (talk) 20:18, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

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.

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Question from Facezila (03:16, 21 March 2022)
hi i want add some content here but it deleting everytime. plz let me know --Facezila (talk) 03:16, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5
I'm sorry about the late delivery of this newsletter. Within the newsletter was material about an ongoing vote, which closes in under 20 hours.

Please share the information links with interested users: Project Overview • Universal Code of Conduct • Enforcement guidelines (proposed) • Voting • Voter information • Voting link

Xeno (WMF) (talk) 04:05, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, . I have tried to vote five or six times and have received an error message each time saying that I need to be logged in to vote. But I am logged in and am editing and taking administrative actions normally. Is the problem that I am editing from a smartphone on the desktop site? Or is there some other problem that prevents me from voting? Cullen328 (talk) 04:13, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi : the votewiki requires a jump from a local wiki where you are logged in; try: Special:SecurePoll/vote/802 or m:Special:SecurePoll/vote/391. (Oh, apropos of nothing, yet I thought you might find this interesting) Xeno (WMF) (talk) 04:32, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * If those don't work, log out and log in again. Modern browsers have defeated WMF's crosswiki login cookie (for good reason) and WMF hasn't figured out how to adjust what's there yet, so even if it says you're logged in everywhere you probably aren't. Izno (talk) 04:53, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , I am not inexperienced and know how to read and follow clearly written instructions. I have "voted" successfully in many previous "elections". I have now tried at least seven times to participate in this one, and I get the same error message, which says  This is despite the self-evident fact that I am logged in as can be seen by my valid signature. I also clicked on a link that you furnished and received the same error message. There is something seriously wrong here that calls the validity of this election into question. Cullen328 (talk) 05:05, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Now I see that Izno is telling me to log out and log in again. Is that your advice too? That seems ridiculous. I prefer to stay logged in all the time. Is there any policy against that? Is the ability to vote in the election dependent on voters logging out and then logging in to be able to vote? If so, where is that explained in the documentation for the election? I have never had to log out and log in again for any previous elections. What is up with this? Cullen328 (talk) 05:05, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's required, though it might help. I'm not sure what it's not letting you - are you able to try a different browser? There is more information at Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Voter information. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 05:20, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , each comment you make leads me increasingly to the conclusion that the WMF is running an illegitimate election that disenfranchises eligible voters for no good reason other than a software glitch. I have edited for many years on standard unmodified Android smartphones using the standard unmodified Chrome browser. That is the world's most common hardware/software combination for internet access - by far. But you are arguing that I need to jump through an undocumented special "log out - log in" procedural hoop to cast a vote? How many other editors who don't know who to compain to are being disenfranchised? You have a serious software problem. Stop the election, solve the problem, and reschedule the election. This is not right. Cullen328 (talk) 05:42, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry you're having trouble accessing the poll. I have not heard of anyone else having this issue. I don't have further ideas, and I'm not the one who could deliver those remedies suggested. You could email ucocproject@undefinedwikimedia.org or file a phabricator ticket to flag this to the right people. I think we might be over-staying our welcome on L235's talk page through, so feel free to reach out to me directly to reply. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 10:51, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

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 * Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
 * Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
 * Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast



Interface administrator changes
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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  and   rights. 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.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
 * 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.

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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6
<section begin="ucoc-newsletter"/> Movement Strategy and Governance News Issue 6, April 2022 Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter. <div style="margin-top:3px; padding:10px 10px 10px 20px; background:#fffff; border:2px solid #808080; border-radius:4px; font-size:100%;">

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 * Leadership Development - A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (continue reading)
 * Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! - The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (continue reading)
 * Movement Discussions on Hubs - The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (continue reading)
 * Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! - Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (continue reading)
 * The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! - The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (continue reading)
 * Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly - Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (continue reading)
 * Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about the UCoC on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

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How do I publish a page? I would like to add a page for Patoshi and the facts behind the name. --Darrowsworld (talk) 06:12, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

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how to upload photo --Prakashmagare1234 (talk) 19:23, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g



CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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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.

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Question from KateCornellFord (20:56, 13 May 2022)
Hi, I want to make a few corrections to the entry on Dey Street (in Manhattan). There are some errors on the history of the farm from the 1670s and the Dey family who were the original owners. How do I do it? --KateCornellFord (talk) 20:56, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 May 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian
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CheckUser changes
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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.
 * 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 . 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.

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Question from Jayrbautista932 (21:03, 6 June 2022)
San ba ako makapasok sa darkweb --Jayrbautista932 (talk) 21:03, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Monicagoy (20:09, 7 June 2022)
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your help! how can I change the language of the articles that I get suggested to Spanish? --Monicagoy (talk) 20:09, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Arbcom
Hi Kevin. I saw your ping at me - "I think your statement would be helpful here". For info, I've finally got round to adding my statement. Apologies for the delay. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 19:25, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2022
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Ninth anniversary on Wikipedia

 * Thanks Chris! That's... that's quite a lot of years! KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 23:20, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Bureaucrat changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Technical news
 * is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

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.

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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:36, 17 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks Gerda :) KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 23:08, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7
<section begin="msg-newsletter"/> Movement Strategy and Governance News Issue 7, July-September 2022 Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's Movement Strategy recommendations, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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 * Movement sustainability: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (continue reading)
 * Improving user experience: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
 * Safety and inclusion: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (continue reading)
 * Equity in decisionmaking: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (continue reading)
 * Stakeholders coordination: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (continue reading)
 * Leadership development: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (continue reading)
 * Internal knowledge management: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (continue reading)
 * Innovate in free knowledge: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (continue reading)
 * Evaluate, iterate, and adapt: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (continue reading)
 * Other news and updates: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (continue reading)

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Arbcom case
Hi Kevin - hope you are well. I've seen your comment on the proposal for my ban, and I would like to draw your attention to my comments in particular the bit about cleaning up my stubs. This is something I would like to continue with, if a ban is not enforced. Hope it's OK to post this here and apologies if you've already seen/read this sub-section, but thought I'd raise it here just incase you hadn't seen it. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 21:00, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'll take a look. I know some arbs aren't a fan of pings but I am – feel free to ping me on the talk page. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 21:02, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Afternoon Kevin. I've just seen this comment by Sdrqaz, and can't help feel quite disappointed too, esp with you saying "I value Lugnuts as a person and as contributor and genuinely hope that I see them back on Wikipedia after a successful appeal" I'm probably wasting my time now in asking you to reconsider this, but at least wanted to state this somewhere.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 14:18, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for flagging this Lugnuts. I'm still writing my reply to but I can say now that I have given a lot of thought to this and to the note and don't intend to change my vote. I'm sorry. Best, KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 19:16, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Bugger. Please tag me into your reply to them, if/when you write it. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 12:10, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).



Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
 * An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news
 * The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
 * Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous
 * You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
 * Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
 * Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Invitation to Local Wikimania Event in San Francisco this Friday
Hi!

Wikimania is happening and hopefully you're enjoying the sessions. While it's fairly last minute, you're warmly invited to participate in the local Wikimania-themed meetup in the Wikimedia Foundation office this Friday (tomorrow!). You will have to register in advance, but we would love to see more people from the WikiSalon community participate! For more information and registration, please check out Wikimania 2022/San Francisco Meetup.

The event will involve hacking, teaching, learning, and celebrating and we'll have snacks. We will have the opportunity to watch live sessions at Wikimania together in the afternoon. The rest of the day we'll have opportunity to participate in the hackathon, and we may have some on-demand workshops/learning sessions.

In case we run out of space, it's first-come-first-serve so let us know soon! Hope to see you there.

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