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The Signpost: 1 December 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svgk Chan

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
 * A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
 * A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news
 * Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
 * To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
 * Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
 * Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries
 * (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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December 2018 GOCE newsletter
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Hawthorne, Florida
Thank you so much for your work on Hawthorne, Florida. You greatly improved the prose of the article. I was watching as you made updates and was simply in awe. I very much appreciate your care in this. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 00:37, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * My pleasure; as an American, I found it easier than many copyedits I've done :-). Good luck with GA, happy holidays and all the best,  Mini  apolis  00:55, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * , cool! I do have a general question. I saw that you put anchor tags in on some of the sections. Can you tell me the reasoning behind that? Is this something we should be doing on all copyedits? PopularOutcasttalk2me! 11:19, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, using the anchor tag when changing a section header preserves any links to that section. All the best,  Mini  apolis  20:10, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * , gotcha! I had so concentrated on the anchor tag that I didn't realize that you had changed the name of the section. :-) Another thing I learned today. Thanks. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 22:12, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

List of songs recorded by Basshunter
Hello. Thanks for your help. I have a question. Why gallery? Other featured lists of songs don't use it. Eurohunter (talk) 23:55, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Because of all that whitespace; it looked awful.  Mini  apolis  01:10, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've finished the copyedit. Good luck with FL and all the best,  Mini  apolis  01:24, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Whitespace? On my screen it was on the right side by table so it was cool ilustration to the table. Btw. you added dots by the end of sentences in description of photos in gallery so this is sanctioned? Should I add dot for photo in the lead too? I'm kinda confuseed because I have seen both versions in different articles or even both versions in one featured article. Eurohunter (talk) 16:47, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * On my screen the images didn't line up next to the tables, creating a large amount of whitespace between the key and the first table. You could narrow the table (partially by incorporating the ref column into one of the others), but you'd still have to reduce the font and that would affect legibility. Terminal punctuation (a period, in this case) is used when a caption is a sentence; sentence fragments aren't punctuated.  Mini  apolis  17:59, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Is the same issue occur in this or this list? Eurohunter (talk) 08:37, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No; the tables in both are narrower, leaving room for the images.  Mini  apolis  14:44, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:
 * Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
 * I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
 * WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
 * If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
 * Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Question
I came across the Boston Globe article from a couple years back, and thought I'd add it to the main GOCE talk page in a template (below the Signpost banners), if that's okay with you. I am sensitive to privacy issues and wanted to check if you'd rather I didn't. – Reidgreg (talk) 21:53, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Very kind of you. Although it identifies me, it'll be in a quiet-enough corner of the 'pedia. Thanks for asking, though; we female editors tend to be sensitive to privacy concerns. All the best,  Mini  apolis  21:58, 21 December 2018 (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! 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Hello, Miniapolis! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:05, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 24 December 2018
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Happy Holidays!

 * Many thanks, and good luck with the house. Happy Holidays and all the best,  Mini  apolis  14:50, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Wishing you and your family the best in 2019! -- The SandDoctor Talk 07:47, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:30, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Gerda, and Happy New Year! All the best,  Mini  apolis  16:33, 30 December 2018 (UTC)