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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Muboshgu
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg None

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
 * The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration
 * Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary, Schwede66!
Wishing Schwede66 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Nat965 (talk) 01:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you kindly.  Schwede 66  01:49, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Another thanks. You have helped me heaps at the start of the past year and though we haven't interacted much recently I still owe you a huge thanks. :)  J 947  (contribs · mail) 08:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * , the pleasure is all mine; I get a lot out of helping keen editors who show a lot of promise.  Schwede 66  08:58, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot, Gerda.  Schwede 66  08:59, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Interview request
Hi there,

I'm a journalist working on a story for Radio New Zealand's The Wireless about the representation of women in Wikipedia articles. I'm particularly interested in the current effort to turn Kate Sheppard's page into a featured article and would love to talk with you about your involvement in the project. would you be available for a short interview over Skype or phone in the near future? If so, or if you have any questions, you can contact me at Thomas.V.Phillips@gmail.com. I'd be really grateful for your help!

Best,

Tom Phillips TommyWommy (talk) 04:23, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

deletion request under U1
Even though I use monobook,I added the script to my common file. It seems to be worimg fine now. Would you kindly delete User:Usernamekiran/monobook.js please? Pretty please. — usernamekiran (talk)  01:31, 19 January 2018 (UTC) See you around guys. :) — usernamekiran (talk)  05:57, 19 January 2018 (UTC) It is just, dont you find it boring/cumbersome archiving the discussions manually again n again? My talkpage isnt much active, but I guess I am lazy at that. I archived my talkpage recently after a long time ago. I had ClueBot for it, but then I set the time parameter for a huge amount. Then I switched from "Archives/YYYY/Month" format to "Archives/plain-numbers" format. But I think I should do something like yours. But not sure if I would be able to keep up with it, given my fondness for laziness. I would like your opinions regarding that. Like, how often it needs to be done, and similar things. I dont find anything boring, just plain lazy; like "yes, thats interesting. I will do it later/tomorrow." — usernamekiran (talk)   12:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Somebody's beaten me to it.  Schwede 66  03:13, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It was a user I'd say. Also, you should start using pings
 * Also, how do you manage your archives? I mean, in the history I can see you doing it manually, but how do you create the pages? manually again? — usernamekiran (talk)
 * , sorry, I overlooked your last query. Yes, I do all of that manually. It gets managed via User:Schwede66/Archive box. When you create the next line for the next archive, it shows up as a red link. Click on it, start adding content (by archiving), and that turns it blue.  Schwede 66  00:22, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for the reply. And, lolol!!! I know how redlinks work
 * I don't find it too taxing to manually archive once every few months. I don't do this to a particular time schedule, but when my talk page becomes too long.  Schwede 66  17:21, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Just an FYI
Hi, wanted to let you know that the reason I'd reverted the new user on Clive Roberts is because it's one of the most prolific sock farms that I've ever seen. There's some good edits mixed in with vandalism. That's all for now. Thanks, Dawnseeker2000  00:17, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I wondered about the background to your revert, . That clarifies it; thanks for the heads up.  Schwede 66  00:19, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg None
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
 * Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news
 * A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: New Year Backlog Drive results:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
 * We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!
 * We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

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 * ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
 * Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Lourdes†
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
 * † Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news
 * The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
 * Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
 * A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
 * A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news
 * CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
 * The edit filter has a new feature  that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards:, , , ,.

Obituaries
 * Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Table formatting
I see that in all your European Rowing Championship pages the formatting of the table has failed, apparently not accepting your rowspan=2 in the first cell. I've corrected it for one page in so you'll see how to correct it for the others. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:15, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I've looked at it with three different browsers but can't see a problem. What browser are you using, and what's the problem that arises for you before you apply your fix?  Schwede 66  16:26, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Interesting. I now see that it's OK in Edge and in Internet Explorer, but the problem is in Chrome, see this screen grab: File:WP screen grab.jpg - David Biddulph (talk) 16:52, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hm. Chrome is one of the browsers that I am using (mostly for the purpose of reading a translated page) but I've never seen this before. I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for the heads up.  Schwede 66  16:55, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

NZ Wikipedian at Large
Hi there. I have a Project Grant open for comment at the moment, to fund me for a year as a NZ Wikipedian at Large. If you have a moment, I'd appreciate your opinion as an experienced NZ Wikimedian. If you think the proposal's a good one, I'd be very grateful for your endorsement; if you can see problems or have suggestions, feel free to comment on the Discussion page. No pressure; it would be good to have more local input from people who know the NZ Wikipedia scene. Cheers, Mike (Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 06:58, 7 March 2018 (UTC))
 * Thanks for the prod. I saw this earlier on the WPNZ page but needed this reminder to voice my opinion.  Schwede 66  22:48, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

New article
Please take a look at (and add to?) List of electoral firsts in New Zealand, partly based on List of electoral firsts in the United Kingdom but with wider coverage of MPs and ministers generally. Hugo999 (talk) 04:01, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Good stuff, John!  Schwede 66  04:38, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
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New Page Review Newsletter No.10
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages! ACTRIAL:
 * ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing
 * Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
 * The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking  place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
 * While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

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