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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beeblebrox
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Uinta Basin Rail
Slambo, you tagged the article Uinta Basin Rail as map needed. I know enough about KML and mapping tools to be dangerous, but if you, or someone you know, wants to take up the challenge, here are some links to some user created maps by users at http://www.utahrails.net. All of these links came from that site
 * Uintah Basin Rail selected route in the UDOT proposal https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z9Sv4Kfh_z7E.kQ1rALRr0Vo4
 * Selected routs by the public private partnership http://uintabasinrailwayeis.com/
 * Approximate route of the unfinished D&SL: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z9Sv4Kfh_z7E.k9m-yk9BBLpc
 * Map of landmarks and tunnels mentioned to cross the Wasatch Mountains in the D&SL proposal. Not relevant to the Uinta Basin article, but cool nonetheless and tangentially related. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z5Myn7QcQ8i8.ko56C8pKht8s

Thanks for all you do. Dave (talk) 05:53, 17 December 2019 (UTC)