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DYK for The Top Notes
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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DYK for John Hore
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Kenya railways nav
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Lost talk page editing history
Recently I was investigating a case of long-term disruptive editing using a number of accounts. In the course of doing so I found a reference to a talk page post which didn't exist. After some time searching I found that it was in the history of the page User talk:Mattgirling/Archive 12, which you deleted as G7 (One author who has requested deletion). This was clearly a mistake, as there was not just one author. I found that around the same time you deleted a number of your talk page archives, but all the others seem to have been created by copying, whereas this one was created by moving your talk page. Although it doesn't often happen, deleting part of the editing history of a user talk page can create the kind of problem that I found, and for anyone other than an administrator it would have been impossible to find the relevant edit at all. It seems that the content of the edits has been copied into one of your talk page archives, but it is necessary to keep the editing history too, so I have restored the page. I suggest that it will make more sense to at least move it into the MIDI userspace, rather than Mattgirling, and perhaps better still would be to merge it back into the history of this talk page. Any opinion? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:17, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks James. I have very little time to look into this at the moment—currently with a two-week-old newborn, so (as evidenced by my recent contributions) WP is mostly off my radar at present. If you have this in hand I'll happily trust your judgment, and given that you have the mop I guess you can do any restores/moves/etc. that you deem necessary.  Sorry I can't have more input at the moment!  MIDI (talk) 16:55, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, there can't be many better reasons for neglecting Wikipedia than looking after your child. I hope he or she is doing well, and that you are managing to get some sleep at night.
 * I have merged the history of the old archived page back into the history of this page. Probably a waste of my time, as most likely nobody else will ever need to check the editing history from seven years ago, but I did and there is just a remote chance someone else will one day. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:20, 7 November 2017 (UTC)