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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)

Invitation to California Southern Railroad related meetup
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/May 2018. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 16:42, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I would love to attend, but I don't think I'll be in the area that day.  I was raised in Manhattan Beach and spent a lot of time railfanning Cajon Pass in the 1980s, but I now live in Wisconsin. Slambo (Speak)  19:16, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

New Zealand DX class locomotive
I made a proposal at Talk:New Zealand DX class locomotive, if you'd like to participate. You are the only admin I know on WikiProject Trains, so I can see you having some experience as to where the threshold for inclusion should be drawn. Thanks for your help! – void  xor  03:16, 29 March 2018 (UTC)