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Thank you
I've seen how much you hate paid editors, and continuously making an effort to stop them, I really grateful to have you here on English Wikipedia :D .-- AldNon Ucallin?☎ 15:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noticing! It's always good to get positive feedback. I will correct you, however, I don't hate paid editors, rather it is paid editing that is hateful.  It is tearing down a wonderful structure that has been built up by many volunteers, that provides good information to whoever has access to the internet.  If that information is poisoned, and people can't trust us, then the whole structure may collapse.
 * Your post reminded me of a news story from a couple of decades ago. After the fall of the Soviet Union people started cutting down and selling copper cable from high power electrical transmission systems (nominally still in use).  I don't hate those folks who cut down the cable - they were doing what they had to do to survive.  I did hate the fact that the transmission systems were being destroyed.  It just seemed like there must be a pretty simple enforcement system that would stop the destruction.  Everybody likely knew who was buying the cable - these folks could be stopped fairly simply if anybody took the obvious steps.  Similarly, most people likely knew who was cutting the cable or where to look to stop folks from cutting more.  So the system was messed up, but the parts of the system that led to the destruction of the cable could easily be fixed.  The actual folks who cut the cable, in my mind, were less responsible than the authorities who couldn't be bothered to take a few minimal steps.  That's my reading in any case.
 * Thanks again.
 * Smallbones( smalltalk ) 17:32, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * That was insightful, I'm the one who should thanking you (again :D), and... You're welcome.-- AldNon Ucallin?☎ 19:54, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Editor of the Week
User:Coretheapple submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
 * I nominate as Editor of the Week for the integrity that he brings to the project, and for his yeoman work - unsung, unrecognized, unappreciated - fighting to preserve Wikipedia from encroachments by paid editors. He has been an editor for more than eight and a half years, and during that time has edited a staggering 11,337 articles at last count. He is not an administrator, heaven only knows why (too much sense?), but a content contributor par excellence, with in excess of 31,000 edits, 65% of them in article space. He is a generalist's generalist, with his top contributions ranging from Bernard Madoff to  Media, Pennsylvania. But his prodigious talents as a contributor are not the only assets he brings to the project. No one has fought longer and more valiantly against paid editing. It is a great pleasure to nominate Smallbones for Editor of the Week.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

Thanks again for your efforts!  Go  Phightins  !  16:04, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your continuing concern over the issue and your calm, level-headed approach. ```Buster Seven   Talk  18:36, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Wow! It's always great to get feedback like this. Thanks and   Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:49, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey Smallbones, just wanted to express my thanks as well for both for your contributions and your engagement with others on broader ideas with Wikipedia that I've seen on Jimbo's talk page and other spots. I often find it difficult to jump into those conversations myself, but I do read them, and I appreciate your thoughtfulness.  I, JethroBT  drop me a line 02:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Very pleased to propose this. Your contributions are tremendously appreciated. Coretheapple (talk) 19:55, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Special report on paid editing
Sorry for the very late question; I understand it can't be addressed before publication. It's a bit odd to have to speculate on what Wikipedia administrators thought; did they not respond to inquiries? isaacl (talk) 21:02, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I understand what you're saying and will recheck the wording. Long story short, I didn't want to name anybody here and perhaps there were more than one. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:11, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking into it! I apologize for the piecemeal comments, as I work my way through the report: regarding how the edit being tagged as a visual edit means it was probably copied and pasted from a word processor document, I don't think it's compelling evidence. Lots of editors use the Visual Editor and I'm sure many of them use it directly without copying and pasting from another program. isaacl (talk) 21:21, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * i think you're misinterpreting here. It's not that all visual editors copy, but that this one looks like it was copied. If I remember correctly, it was a huge edit in many parts.  I'll probably stick with my guide on this.  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:30, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * You wrote, "The edit was tagged as a visual edit, which means that Issack.build most likely drafted the content in a word processor before copying and pasting it into the Wikipedia article." The sentence seems to imply that the visual edit tag leads to the conclusion that the content was drafted in a word processor. If you meant something else, perhaps it could be reworded. The edit is a couple paragraphs of text. isaacl (talk) 21:36, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

OK, the last comment I have is editorial, and so again I'm sorry for not reading the report earlier and commenting then. The Canadian prime minister doesn't really have much to do with the story, so personally I think mentioning him again in the last section and saying there are no known links to the firm in question is a bit uncalled for. There isn't much reason to believe that people vet the advertising firms used by the people they interact with, so it's not exactly news that there is no known link. I know publication is nigh, and so I understand if you want to leave your concluding section as-is. isaacl (talk) 21:33, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I've commented at the article, but I'm glad it clarifies there is no known link, nor any evidence whatsoever, tying Trudeau to the paid editing story. Which of course begs the question, why is he mentioned at all? At best this is just clickbait, at worse, a BLP violation. – bradv  🍁  00:00, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Newsworthy newsworthiness
Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news might be worth an op-ed. [W]e should retire ITN as a section of the Main Page altogether, except possibly for the RD portion. We basically are saying to our readers that we know way way way better what's good for them and what's really important. That 8 editors who cast the 'oppose' votes in that discussion count more than all the news coverage in the world and the fact that tomorrow we'll probably discover that the DT Wikipedia article had been viewed by over 500K readers today (or at least I wouldn't be surprised if it were a number in that range). Those readers, they don't know anything about our ITN and ITNR rules, no do they care. But they most definitely know when a story is 'in the news'. seems on-point to me (I've had problems with ITN for a long time now, I could show you my unsuccessful bid for what seemed an obvious item to me). Another comment: The thread was closed too quickly, in less than 1.5 hours, of course while the U.S. editors were asleep. Perhaps a revenge for the RBG story being posted so fast. - Bri.public (talk) 17:42, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * ITN story proposed 05:09
 * discussion closed 06:32 (02:32 NYC / 23:32 Los Angeles)
 * discussion reopened 12:12
 * discussion closed 12:38 (08:38 NYC / 05:38 Los Angeles)
 * discussion reopened 12:38–12:48
 * discussion closed 13:01 (09:01 NYC / 06:01 Los Angeles)
 * talkpage discussion "Closing/re-opening noms" started 13:04

Brief timeline above for Smallbones and/or watchers. - Bri.public (talk) 18:00, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm just gobsmacked. Of course there can be an op-ed; do you want to write it, or find somebody else to write it. Perhaps even a forum-type article with 2 authors facing-off. I'll be at the beach for the first time in about 2 months. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:43, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Proposal: How about a mix of the two ideas. I'll do some legwork while you're relaxing (this weekend?) and we can make a decision about what to do next. I'm thinking of an outline/introduction kind of neatening up what I wrote above, and locating perhaps 1-2 people who can provide opposing POVs on whether ITN is tenable.
 * One of the things this exposes is how there's a shocking lack of procedure for something that is part of the front page. The story selection is personality-driven ... no semblance of developing consensus IMO ... with a strong bias against US news (my own experience). I'll be digging into what the procedures are or are supposed to be. - Bri.public (talk) 22:04, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I'll be writing a book review and trying to catch up on my emails. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 22:23, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

The discussion continues. It looks like it has turned into a vote on a proposal but incompletely defined and without any notifications AFAIK. They are also mixing the merits of the specific story with the discussion of the proposal to re-open discussion. What a mess. - Bri.public (talk) 20:00, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Update: Discussion closed 6 October as "moot" without a resolution . A reform proposal to introduce an ITN editorial board, in a separate thread, was trounced. Bri.public (talk) 17:38, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find the separate discussion. You should write the whole thing up, including the separate discussion. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 17:45, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Check Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news. I have not started my write-up yet (other than these notes) but still plan to. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:51, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Your Percepto piece is in the news again
FYI ☆ Bri (talk) 04:00, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I hadn't noticed yet. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 04:08, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Plus minor Smallbones( smalltalk ) 02:28, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

No editors for the Signpost?
Was browsing Wikipedia_Signpost/About and saw that "Editors" appears to be vacant right now. Do you want a pair of eyes and a brain on it? jp×g 12:59, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Late November Signpost contribution
Be sure to see User:Bri/Signpost Story1 for potential inclusion in the issue. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:00, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * - maybe for the December issue? Right now the story seems to go around in swirls if not circles.  Maybe we can straighten out the story 1st, Smallbones( smalltalk ) 15:14, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem. Maybe you can assign suggest one of the new folks go over it copyedit-wise.
 * Perhaps it can be December's In focus or Special report? ☆ Bri (talk) 15:55, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Your help if possible
I found an article on someone so very distantly related to me that I do not think it is a conflict of interest to edit, and I noticed that since he is Alaskan Native Heritage, whoever started his page uses "Bill Beltz" but I never find that he actually used that, all the papers and documents about him are "William Earnest Beltz" and as first president of the Alaska Senate, I think we should honor him with his name spelled out correctly. Do you know the process by which an existing article can be renamed? Thanking you in advance for all your continuing help! Sincerely yours, Ellin Beltz (talk) 02:00, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * You could probably just move it if you want. I move so few articles I sometimes forget how, but try the "more" button right next to the "view history button" on the 2nd line from the top. But that might be considered rushing things (maybe not though). I think I'd just ping RadioKAOS and RFD from the talk page and say something like "if both of you are against moving this to William Earnest Beltz I won't move this. But I think it should be moved because ... Or we could have an RfC if you'd like." (RFD and RadioKaos seem to be the "major" editors). I bet that would take one day.  Smallbones( smalltalk ) 02:41, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I have not yet gotten to it but thank you very much for your help.  I think pinging is probably best!  "RfC" is request for comment?  Thanks for all your help!  Ellin Beltz (talk) 02:01, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Good edition of the Signpost
Thanks! Tony (talk)  08:17, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Seconded! Zazpot (talk) 22:33, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thirded — Eddie891 Talk Work 23:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Fourthed! SarahSV (talk) 23:10, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Fifthed! Great to see the Signpost doing so well, makes me remember working on it very fondly. Actually, looking forward to the next edition, I have a Conflict of Interest case that I think you might find interesting. The article is Dragon Group and the CoI discussion is here. Lemme know if you're interested in more info! Zarasophos (talk) 21:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

The sequel to Wikipedia Signpost/2020-03-01/By the numbers is here
See User:MER-C/AdminStats2020. I am not convinced the drop in spamming and sockpuppetry are real - these admin stats are reflective of the amount of abuse that gets caught and mitigated, not the amount of abuse that there is. I do think the amount of vandalism has decreased in reality, though - it's seen in all five actions examined. MER-C 20:04, 2 January 2021

Signpost
Just letting you know I haven't forgotten about writing up edit #1,000,000,000 for the Signpost - any place in particular you'd like me to write up my draft? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:08, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/News and notes and we can edit it there, or send me an email. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 16:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks. I'll try to work something up this afternoon/evening. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 16:34, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, it's here - I may come back to it in a little while and tinker with it a bit. Please let me know if it's of any use. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:51, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Signpost obit
Hi, I'd like to see if it'd be okay to do one last-second tweak to Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Obituary. I would like to change ...she was well-known for policy-focused editing in controversial topic areas, especially to ensure that appropriate sources were used and the neutral point of view policy followed... to ...she was well-known for policy-focused editing in controversial topic areas, especially sexology, to ensure that appropriate sources were used and the neutral point of view policy followed... This adds "especially sexology". Both I and her brother think it would be good and more accurate. Crossroads -talk- 06:53, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 06:58, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you; done. Also, I had forgotten to mention, should we clean up (cut) all that hidden text (most of which is from myself and SMcCandlish)? Crossroads -talk- 07:05, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ok, but I'll check it out as well. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 07:08, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Naum Koen
Hi, it's was not my intention to be edit warring or WP:OWN. I have added the reasons why i don't believe Wally's edits are helpful on that page to the talk page. Looking forward to have a constructive discussion. The same user is doing a massive rewrite on another related page History of the Jews in the United Arab Emirates, where a consensus NPOV wording regarding leadership and rabbis was reached months ago. Also please note that these are the only two pages the user has ever edited. I also suspect the revert from anon account (207.237.117.218) was same user. Shemtovca (talk) 06:00, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Discussions of interest
Because of your interest in paid editing corporate articles, I thought you might be interested in the discussions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Policy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not_(organizations)#Requested_move_18_February_2021 Coretheapple (talk) 15:11, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Is this a hill worth climbing?
Do you think it's reasonable to ask for Wikipedia Signpost/2019-06-30/Special report to be restored? ☆ Bri (talk) 19:42, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * It's reasonable, since it never should have been deleted. I'm not sure it's reasonable from the perspective of the time and effort it would take. email me if you want to go ahead. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 19:49, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, I the process. - Bri.public (talk) 17:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Paidlist
If you don't know about it, WP:PAIDLIST is updated fairly frequently when editors sight either on-wiki paid editing or off-wiki offers to do so. Might be something to keep on your watchlist to see what's afoot. -- Bri.public (talk) 18:43, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * FP1, a political reputation management firm on PAIDLIST, seems to be active here again. See Sockpuppet investigations/Lesbianadvocate ☆ Bri (talk) 14:06, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Regarding my book
I've sent you an email regarding my book: How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles HitomiAkane (talk) 19:44, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Question regarding Signpost submission
Hi! I've written up a Signpost draft at User:Ganesha811/Signpost draft. I was wondering, for the checklist at the top, which parts are supposed to be done by me and which by other editors. I've added a title, but was unsure if I should go ahead and write a blurb or mark the article as being ready to be copyedited. Thank you for your help. Ganesha811 (talk) 19:53, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Robert Brockman
Hi SmallBones, Last month, I came across your Opinion article and decided to create an article about one of the public-shy billionaire individual. It went through the review and I was thinking, ok this will likely get linked to their autogenerated google snapshot. Seems to me this article has not been cached by google (it shows up on both bing and duckduckgo). Moreover, it doesn't even show up when you google "robert brockman billionaire wikipedia". I was wondering if this is some kind of catching issues or suppression by google. Is there anything I should do? Please let me know if may be I should just wait. Thanks. GreaterPonce665 (TALK) 17:50, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * This information may be of interest: Controlling_search_engine_indexing. It looks like it took a long time for your article to get reviewed and thus become available to get indexed by Google. I am not sure how fast Google usually picks up a newly eligible article after that, but since this one isn't orphaned, I would be cautiously optimistic. There is also Notices received from search engines, but unfortunately that page hasn't been updated since 2019, and also, such RTBF deletions would be expected to only affect search results in the EU. Regards, HaeB (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I'll wait to see if google updates this in a month. GreaterPonce665  (TALK) 14:09, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

My, my!
You've wasted a lot of time on your user page, wouldn't you agree? Thanks for doing it! Your friend, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:37, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Is something new brewing wrt corporate reputation management?
FYI my intuition is something is afoot ... see. Proxy IP editing, reputation management, affects many other other articles about companies. - Bri.public (talk) 20:22, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-04-25/Disinformation report
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-04-25/Disinformation report, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-04-25/Disinformation report and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-04-25/Disinformation report during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 13:41, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

April 2021


A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. Fram (talk) 08:11, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to interpret this
What do you mean here? Do you mean you'll make the notation on the list of Signpost articles, or that Signpost will write something? Risker (talk) 01:36, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * We will compile it. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 02:20, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * That's not helping. Are you writing the article or not? I mean, a lot of people are working together collaboratively on this piece; if you're not going to use it, please just say so.  Risker (talk) 03:50, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You don't have to worry that we won't use it, but, as usual with obits, we will start with the material on WP:Deceased Wikipedians and then add material from other sources - 2 other sources in this case. We also will edit the result, for length and to meet our standards.
 * In the future, if you want to submit an article to The Signpost, please submit the article via our submissions page, or drop the editor-in-chief (that's me for now) a line to get some feedback, or perhaps just a note on the newsroom talk page. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 14:52, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * When you have finished throwing your very light weight about and making what you no doubt think is clever repartee, but can only be interpreted as impertinence to Risker, you should realise that many editors thought more than highly of Sarah. Over the years, we have lost many valued and respected editors, but none who have done so much to change and improve the project. That many here wish to give her what amounts to Wikipedia’s first state funeral, in the form of a collaborative obituary, is unsurprising. You should remember a newspaper only survives if people choose to read it. Editors and dull newspapers are here today and gone tomorrow, and I doubt many will mourn the Signpost not appearing on their talk page. Giano  (talk) 19:52, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Giano. I totally agree. Bishonen &#124; tålk 20:07, 27 May 2021 (UTC).
 * My thanks as well . Smallbones please remember that Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy and that applies to the Signpost as well. How anyone can look at the heartfelt sentiments that are still being added here User talk:SlimVirgin and then retreat into "submit the item in the usual manner" and "we need two sources in this case" trope is beyond human and humane comprehension. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:22, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello Smallbones. I have now submitted the draft obituary to the Submissions page. Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Submissions. There's also a subpage at Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Obituary/FA-GA detailing her major contributions. I have to admit I was shocked and dismayed and will consider publishing instead. Thank you,— Diannaa 🇨🇦 (talk) 20:30, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

MarnetteD: as I understand it, the reference to two sources was that there are two other deaths that were added to the list of deceased Wikipedians and thus are slated for inclusion in the obituary column. isaacl (talk) 20:33, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for pointing that out . I have struck through that part of my post. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:38, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

I hope everybody will calm down and realize that I'm just doing everything here in the usual way. Every article in The Signpost needs to get the approval by the editor-in-chief. We'll be writing our own article compiled from WP:Deceased Wikipedians, User talk:Slim Virgin, and your submission. I'm not up to something nefarious here - it's just our usual procedure. Please assume good faith. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:47, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The people above seem quite calm to me, Smallbones. I think what they dislike isn't so much your procedure, as your breathtaking rudeness. Please think about it. Bishonen &#124; tålk 21:54, 27 May 2021 (UTC).
 * Smallbones, if ever you wonder why it is so hard to get anyone to willingly write for the Signpost, this entire exchange and activity can be used as your template of how not to treat colleagues. Most of this article is written by some of the best writers on the project. It is written specifically for the Signpost, with an intention to move it over to the WP:DECEASED page following final copy-edits and publication. Materials from the user talk and the little bits over at WP:RIP have already been incorporated, although I wouldn't object to the notion of adding a few pull quotes from the user talk page. But you've been very deliberately obtuse at every step of the way. Just last month, you said you wanted out of the role of the editor in chief. This isn't the behaviour of someone looking to attract others to the role.  Risker (talk) 22:12, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Smallbones, I think maybe the piece of the puzzle you're not seeing yet is that the people who wrote the obituary did so as a final tribute and memorial, after having lost a co-worker and friend. It's been part of the grieving process for some of us. Remember too that Sarah was no ordinary contributor, she was larger than life, Wikipedia personified, our Princess Diana if you will. So there's a real sense of loss, even for people like me who did not know her well. For you to throw our work away by blanking the page (or implying that only small bits of it will be published) seems to me to be inappropriate under the circumstances. — Diannaa 🇨🇦 (talk) 00:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Many people seem to be all wound up over Sarah's passing. Many of us, myself included, considered her to be a close personal friend. She was also a trusted advisor to The Signpost. I do not think that "only small bits" of the submitted obit will be kept. I am not going to throw away your work. But we are an independent newspaper and decide on our own what we print. A newspaper can't operate any other way. We have rules and traditions that go back 16 years. Even if people don't know how a newspaper works, by now they should be familiar with how The Signpost works.
 * Smallbones( smalltalk ) 01:53, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Why should people be familiar with how the Signpost works, when it doesn't work the same way consistently? This is a level of expectation that is unrealistic. The last time I wrote for the Signpost, my piece was published without any major changes, just a few copy edits. That's how I expected it to work this time, too; and how it works for the majority of contributions. Risker (talk) 02:15, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello, I noticed that earlier today you blanked the submission re SV's obit. I'd asked Risker how to publish in the Signpost and have been in communications with Sarah's family. Risker has been helpful to me in terms of helping how to navigate the death of an editor; in retrospect I should have come directly to the Signpost and asked about how to get an obituary published and I apologize to Risker for ... well perhaps placing her in this situation. But Smallbones, I must ask that you reconsider the sentence above: "Many people seem to be all wound up over Sarah's passing". In fact, many are grieving. "Wound up" is entirely an inappropriate term for grief. If the Signpost's policy is to write obituaries, then please be very clear about the policy and post it somewhere easy to find, so those of us who are just regular editors can find it. I looked and found nothing. Victoria (tk) 02:16, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Using the phrase "wound up over Sarah's passing" shows a complete lack of sensitivity. Please don't belittle editors emotions in that fashion. Your blanking of other editors work with the edit summary "for signpost staff" is not an example of how any newspaper I've been around works. It would behoove you to take on board the posts here and start respecting your fellow editors. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 02:26, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Deep breath, everyone. Smallbones, I took a few minutes to re-read your last editorial, and it occurs to me that this discussion and the related actions are all a part of what you were talking about. I know this past year has been rough for you, and some of it may be playing out in unintentional ways, such as a degree of desensitization toward the concerns of others, and too much dependence on structures and processes that you know well and are comfortable with, whether or not others are equally knowledgeable or comfortable. A lot of care from some truly remarkable editors has been put into the draft article, and we should probably assume good faith that you recognize and appreciate that this is one article you aren't going to have to write from scratch, even if you haven't said that. A lot of care has also been taken on the part of the members of the collaborative effort to only include SarahSV's Wikipedia life, even though several of the editors have had more personal experiences with her, because we know how badly she was harassed over the years, and that at least a few of her tormentors would not hesitate to leverage any personal information made available to similarly harass those close to her outside of Wikipedia. I hope that you will keep this firmly in mind when publishing. There's not much on WP:DECEASED at this point that isn't covered concisely in what has been written in the collaboration, and a few pull quotes from her user talk would probably serve a Signpost article very well. Risker (talk) 05:04, 28 May 2021 (UTC) Just a note. As mentioned above my last From the editor column describes some difficult circumstances I'm dealing with right now. The next edition of The Signpost will be delayed until June 27, so there's lots of time to deal with the issues in the section. I'll be taking several days away from Wikipedia, so let's consider this discussion closed for the time being. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 03:51, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the problem is that when Smallbones says "we are an independent newspaper and decide on our own what we print" what they mean is veering signficantly towards the Royal "we". It is ironic that certain royals were also known for what Bishonen describes correctly as their "breathtaking rudeness". Black Kite (talk) 18:24, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021). Administrator changes
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Final Call for Candidates for AffCom - June 2021


''This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.''

This is a final Call for Candidates for the June 2021 Affiliations Committee election.

If you are interested in running, please post your application and follow all four steps on the nomination page by 30 June 2021 23:59 hours UTC.

If you know somebody you think may be interested, please share this with them and encourage them to consider it. If you have any questions about this process or the requirements, please email affcom@wikimedia.org before the application deadline or reach out to any of the current members.

On behalf of the AffCom elections committee,

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Obit
re: this. FWIW - I prefer the first option (green box) I think it looks cleaner and more professional. Just IMO. — Ched (talk) 18:02, 25 June 2021 (UTC) (edited: — Ched (talk) 18:05, 25 June 2021 (UTC))
 * Thanks for the advice. I think I'll call in a box expert (and the ultimate copy editor) just to make sure. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:08, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm wondering why I bothered to put that work into copy-editing. It seems to have been ignored. Tony (talk)  11:55, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * (watching:) from what I saw you added a version, instead of replacing, - how is anyone supposed to even notice if it was different? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:02, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * So you ruined it. Why didn't you do a simple check? Tony (talk)  13:15, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Tony, I don't know whom you mean by "you". I didn't touch the thing. I was only watching, and thought you did, too. I tried to explain. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Tony1's last version got mangled via an edit conflict with another user. It had 2 Signpost editing templates on it (which would duplicate the text). So I went back before the mangling and attempted to replicate tony's edits. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 12:14, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * the best I can do is to show you the diff where you should see your copyedits. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 12:22, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, see what happened, the template replication does make them hard to work out. But, but...but can we please restore Tony's edits, they were a large improvement. Thanks all. Ceoil (talk) 13:28, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * i'll try, but it will take some time. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 13:31, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Had a go Smallbones with this diff, if could look over if what was intended. Ceoil (talk) 13:34, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Why the "pet" image was placed on top with an edit summary saying that she recently put it on her user page while she added it to her user talk page I don't know, but I have regretted edit summaries myself. This is her user page, - magnificent and bold, no pet in sight. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hey Gerda Arendt!
 * Thanks for your help on this. I was getting too emotional. too sure that everything wasn't going to come out *exactly* right. I'm sorry to say that I don't know exactly where that pic went. I didn't delete it unless it was an accident. Yah, my edit summary was off by a word. It'll be a long time if ever that we get over the loss of Sarah, Thanks again. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:47, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Smallbones, I've been out for the day and just took a look. It looks lovely. Thanks so much for everything and thanks to everyone else too. It has been an emotional journey. Victoria (tk) 21:51, 27 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, both. I see that you were getting emotional - which I believe is a good thing. With less emotion, you'd have seen, Smallbones, that this is not a pic "missing" (which says "Art doesn't help people"), but a pic that a user who misses her created based on it (which says "This user misses SlimVirgin"). You did well, both and many, and if I had been less emotional I'd given you a flower of thanks right away, with some impressions of places, flowers and music for you. I hope we won't have to do this heartbreaking job too often. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:16, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * added: missing SlimVirgin, and RMF festival opening --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:43, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Love the pic you eventually chose for the top. Tony (talk)  13:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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 * Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
 * An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news
 * IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration
 * The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Voting methods
Regarding voting methods where voters rank candidates, including single transferable vote: I assume you've read the mechanics of the various procedures and are just wondering about the rationale for them? For STV, are you being tripped up by scenarios with multiple seats being elected and thus the different ways to specify quota and how to transfer the excess? (My current favourite Condorcet method voting system is Ranked Pairs because I think its method of resolving preferences loops (e.g. A is preferred to B is preferred to C is preferred to A) is relatively easy to understand.) isaacl (talk) 23:29, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news
 * Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import.

Arbitration
 * Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

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Perhaps some clarification could be done?
Regarding [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Paid-contribution_disclosure&diff=1038015675&oldid=1038012022 this edit]: I can't quite figure out what you're trying to say; perhaps you could clarify on that talk page? There is no "2nd method" listed in the Terms of Use. The paid-contribution disclosure page has a second bullet on changing the policy (which, without going back to check, I believe you added in order to assert that more stringent requirements could be added without ratifying an alternative policy). However, when you said the 2nd method listed in the policy (and in the ToU) which would need to include using "the project's standard consensus-based process for establishing core policies, you seem to be referring to the first bullet anyway. If I had to guess, I think you're saying an alternative policy can't be enacted without establishing community consensus support for the policy. isaacl (talk) 02:58, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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You may find this funny
Talk:Jasenovac_concentration_camp. It's so... Wikipedian. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:47, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

German paid editing scandal brewing

 * de:Wikipedia:Checkuser/Anfragen/Olaf Kosinsky; Subteno
 * https://netzpolitik.org/2021/wikipedia-edits-aus-dem-bundestag-abgeordnete-wahlkampf/

I only found out about it just now, so I have nothing to say. MER-C 12:49, 4 September 2021 (UTC) @Smallbones I've drafted the article here. Hope you like it, feel free to do to it whatever you think is necessary! Zarasophos (talk) 14:54, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Got it. There now will be 2 very big paid editing stoties this month. The other involves $7 billion payment to IRS. 15:04, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Here's a nice quote for you: "Autopatrolled would help me a lot". MER-C 12:02, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Unsigned comment
You might want to go back and sign WT:NEWSROOM. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:35, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Just a heads-up
I was re-reading the special report that you wrote a year ago about UPE and found that the discovery timeline was incorrectly flipped backwards. So I flipped them back to correct sequence while preserving the words that you wrote. Hope you're ok with that change. OhanaUnitedTalk page 02:35, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Inadvertent rollback
If you have revert notifications on, you'll probably see that I rollbacked you just now. It was an accident - I was looking at page history and fat-fingered my keyboard somehow. I've re-reverted myself. Sorry about that. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 23:05, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Ha, I was *really* scratching my head over that. ☆ Bri (talk) 23:08, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes
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 * Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news
 * DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under.

Arbitration
 * A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
 * Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
 * The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

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 * Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
 * The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Journalism
If in a news article, you quote Person A talking about Person B, you ask Person B for a comment/response before running the story with Person A's quote about Person B, and if they give a response, you quote Person B's response in the story along with Person A's quote. This is journalism 101, don't you agree? It's why so many stories say something like "Person B did not respond to repeated requests for comment before this story was published." Shouldn't Signpost have done the same? Levivich 15:26, 3 October 2021 (UTC)


 * "An important part of the EiC job is to ensure that The Signpost follows Wikipedia's rules and to read every word in every article to make sure violations of our policies and guidelines do not happen. If you believe there is a violation, please politely inform us on the article's talk page. I'll take every such report seriously, even if I disagree with you. If there is no satisfactory response, please email me directly and I'll try my best to make sure that any violations are corrected. This promise is not a guarantee that I'll take the actions you request. I will not censor a contributor's opinion simply because you disagree with it.
 * "All Wikipedia users have the right to take any further complaints to the Administrators' noticeboard for incidents or the arbitration committee, but please remember that your complaint will be against me, since I am in charge of compliance with Wikipedia's rules, and not against our writers, staff or other contributors." (from Wikipedia Signpost/2019-03-31/From the editors)
 * There is a distinction betweem Wikipedia's rules and the rules that we impose upon ourselve - that we will follow the standard ethics of journalism. Wikipedia admins and arbs enforce Wikipedia's rules - and I doubt that they'll find anything amiss here. I've offered Person B a very simple way to make sure that's the case. He should take it to a non-involved admin. We can both send our statements to the admim and let them decide. I'll automatically accept the admin's decision if I believe that they are applying Wikipedia's rules, and not applying additional rules that don't apply to everybody else on Wikipedia.  The additional rules on journalism ethics don't apply at this stage.
 * Now The Signpost does apply the rules of journalism ethics to itself, and I've already decided that. This is not a violation IMO. You seem to believe that anytime a person is mentioned in a story journalism ethics require us to get a comment from them and then print it. No, journalism ethics say that if a person is seriously accused or criticized, they should be contacted. There's a level of criticism below which there is no requirement. Person A did not accuse person B of a crime or suggested that B was a fascist. He stated it clearly in an RfC and was not contradicted for at least 3 weeks (maybe never). Person B has not even told me in an understandable way that he thinks A's statement is wrong - just that he thinks it should be removed.
 * What B wants to do now is up to him. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 16:23, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I am only talking about journalism ethics, not Wikipedia policy. Do you accept Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics as authoritative? "Diligently seek subjects of news coverage to allow them to respond to criticism or allegations of wrongdoing." I don't see where that is limited to allegations of criminal conduct or anything that substantiates Is there any journalism code that limits the right of reply in this way?  If a Member of Parliament, on the Parliament floor, criticized another MP, and a newspaper later block quoted that criticism in an article, wouldn't they either also print the other MP's response if it's in the record, and/or contact the criticized MP and offer right of reply? You can imagine where the MP may not have replied in Parliament (for any number of reasons), but should still be given the opportunity to reply if the criticism were to be republished by a newspaper months later? Levivich 16:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I certainly accept the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics as authoritative as far as it goes. I consult it about every other issue. Now "Diligently seek subjects of news coverage to allow them to respond to criticism or allegations of wrongdoing." does appear to be absolute, but what you are missing is that there are no absolutes in the code. Everything involves a trade off. It's more like Wikipedia's guidelines - allowing occasional exceptions
 * Under Why doesn’t SPJ enforce its Code of Ethics? they leave the enforcement and interpretation of the code up to the newspaper and say that there are always trade offs involved.
 * "We realize — and have embodied in our code — that all journalism ethics is a balancing act between often conflicting responsibilities. One of our guiding principles, whose importance we all recognize, is "Seek truth and report it." Another is "Minimize harm." Obviously, if one reports all truths without flinching, we will inevitably do great harm, and if one minimizes harm as much as possible, one will not be reporting essential truths. The key is in the balancing act — and in recognizing the importance of each core value. That's not easy to enforce.
 * "Similar conflict exists between our other two basic principles, "Act independently" and "Be accountable." "
 * Now when I see an editor A who has made a truthful statement (ignoring some rhetorical exaggeration) being criticized by a person who has made some exceptional accusations and criticism against A, complaining without success in 3 different forums about his minor penalty, I am not going to lend credence in any way to B's original accusations.  This code is not subject to purely formal arguments, which when you scratch the surface have no substance.
 * I'm sorry, but I've made my decision on this. Further discussion about journalism ethics in this case should be sent to me by email. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:12, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll take every such report seriously, even if I disagree with you – I had to laugh at this. You made no serious attempt to engage with this complaint: you posted a lengthy and defensive dismissal before you had even take the time to read and understand it. You seemingly still don't understand it, as you are repeating the patently false claim that I have forum-shopped this in "3 places" – I politely asked the author to remove it on his talk page, that's it. More bizarrely, you didn't post your response as an actual response to me, you posted it on another page entirely, without a ping or even mentioning my name. It's almost as if you're more interested in self-important grandstanding about being the Signpost 'editor-in-chief' than having a good faith conversation with a fellow Wikipedia editor. Which, by the way, is how we resolve disputes around here, not by running to a teacher admin and having them decide.
 * Oh, and another, uninvolved admin (unprompted by me), did ask you to remove it, but you ignored that and will doubtless now explain how his intervention does not pass your moved goalposts. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 06:27, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, and another, uninvolved admin (unprompted by me), did ask you to remove it, but you ignored that and will doubtless now explain how his intervention does not pass your moved goalposts. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 06:27, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

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And thank you.
Do you think we can/should collapse the infobox at North Platte, Nebraska, at least below "coordinates"? It would displace the image below less, fullscreen-on-laptop-wise. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:25, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll suggest writing the article first, adding more content of course, then worry about the formatting. But in the meantime, whatever you think is best. BTW I'm taking this very seriously, even perhaps a full article for The Signpost. It represents to me a constant conflict in how we write Wikipedia, but even beyond that how we deal with contradictions in our lives! I'm swamped again (serial killer, mass tax avoidance, Wikiconference - the usual) but I'll try to help over there a bit. BTW, references are in the NRHP articles as well as 5 photos I took a decade ago. I was there for an hour or so. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 15:05, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Interesting conflict, yes. "No, WP isn't for putting a positive spin on your city - but the article shouldn't look like that, either." Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:55, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Interview with COVID-19
Hi Smallbones. Hope that you're well. What a year so far! I was thinking of doing an interview with the COVID-19 WikiProject to cap off our December Signpost. I thought I'd notify you early to see what you thought about that idea and ideally reserve that spot. Cheers, Tom (LT) (talk) 04:58, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Go for it! I was thinking that we might have done something similar before. If so it was last year, not this year. It's still the biggest story of the year, so this interview is sorely needed. December or November will be a good time to do it. Note that the December issue *might be* published a week or so early. Thanks. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 13:18, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * - have to admit this section title made me laugh. I had visions of a sarcastic "interview" with the Covid-19 virus.  Risker (talk) 13:40, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

An article for submission to the Signpost

 * Now found at Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Community view

Dear Editor in Chief:

I'm 不爱思考得猪 (a pig that does not like to think). I have written an op-ed piece for your review. You can find it at the bottom of Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Submissions. Here is the direct link to the draft article itself: User:不爱思考得猪/Signpost_draft

Thank you for your time and consideration.

不爱思考得猪 (talk) 18:30, 23 October 2021 (UTC) : thanks, I'll get back to you in a few hours. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 19:02, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Many, many thanks for your prompt reply Editor in Chief. 不爱思考得猪 (talk) 19:12, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much Editor in Chief! Feel free to change the article however you like and put it in whichever section of the next issue of the Signpost as you see fit. I will check back on Wednesday but I'm sure it will be looking good in the upcoming issue of Signpost. With respect to the tardiness: it is I who should apologize to you for the tardiness in bringing my piece to your attention, due to me repeatedly reading it over to iron out any bugs (out of my perfectionistic tendencies ;-) prior to submission.不爱思考得猪 (talk) 14:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks beautiful! Last paragraph removed. 不爱思考得猪 (talk) 20:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

GLAM Newsletter
Dear Smallbones, This is the item about which I sent you an e-mail: GLAM Newseletter (draft). Vysotsky (talk) 15:05, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Signpost article in progress
Hello dear Smallbones. I have just realized that I probobly wont be able to finish my article before Sunday. How do I save it for next month? NW1223 (Howl at me / My hunts) 00:06, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Your content is currently at but it will have moved after publication. It will be in the history of WP:Wikipedia Siignpost/2021-10-31/Opinion after 31 October. ☆ Bri (talk) 14:37, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

The WikiCup
The final round of the WikiCup concluded at the end of October. Would you be interested in having a page about the contest in the November Signpost, perhaps something like the one Adam Cuerden did last year? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:32, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * You will find my efforts at User:Cwmhiraeth/sandbox6, and as far as I am concerned, it is ready for publication. I used the same gallery layout as Adam Cuerden used last year, because he presumably knew what he was doing, and I don't. There is a footnote to the statistics in paragraph 2, because on the face of it, they do not agree with the unofficial tool, as it was not working correctly during round 1. You will know best how to deal with this footnote, but I think it ought to be included to explain the anomaly. Please do any editing to the text and layout that you think fit. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:23, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Smallbones( smalltalk ) 13:28, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Blah blah blah, my signpost draft, also what happened to the arbitration report?
Hi! I remember that I once asked on this talk page if you wanted any help with the Signpost, and promptly got distracted by a shiny object and forgot about it entirely. For this I apologize! Anyway, I wrote a draft for the November issue (I know it's late, but it is a little time-sensitive since it's a report for November specifically). Also, I was wondering what happened to the arbitration report; it looks like we haven't had one in a while. I would be stoked to try my hand, but I am wondering if I should try writing something a little less contentious first (as I'm given to understand the arbitration report has traditionally been the most dramatic of all Signpost features)... jp×g 03:53, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * That's a pretty good article. Please fill in some missing numbers. How did I miss you a year ago? BTW, both  and myself have become involved in an AfD for Mass killings under Communist regimes which started in the last few days, and may soon be in your record book. This is the 6th AfD for the article. Finish up the article please. Early next week we can talk about a couple future article on AfDs. Maybe Arb report next month if you want to try. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 05:40, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Done, and ready for copyedit. I will, of course, probably have to update the numbers immediately before the piece runs (although this won't involve changing any of the rest of the content). If it's all right, I'm going to get started on an arb report next (since there hasn't been one since December, it'd have to be an overview of the whole year, so whether it runs in November or December it'll need to have all the previous months anyway). jp×g 06:16, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I've finished User:JPxG/Signpost draft 2, which is the arbitration report. jp×g 01:40, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Very urgent oopsie
I think I fucked up the script and mass-messaged the wrong edition of the Signpost. jp×g 01:03, 29 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Edit: It turns out I did not do this, and everything is fine now (save for the global mass-message). jp×g 01:24, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I confirm by scanning Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2021-11-29 ☆ Bri (talk) 02:22, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Let's avoid being too quick to assert we failed mission; a failure report should not be spurious. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 02:27, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

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Affiliations Committee (AffCom) Call for advisors - January 2022
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The Affiliations Committee – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for advisors!

The main role of the Affiliations Committee is to guide groups of volunteers that are interested in forming Wikimedia affiliates. We review applications from new groups, answer questions and provide advice about the different Wikimedia affiliation models and processes, review affiliate bylaws for compliance with requirements and best practices, and advise the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on issues connected to chapters, thematic organizations and Wikimedia user groups.

We are looking for advisors who are excited by the challenge of empowering volunteers to get organized and form communities that further our mission around the world. In exchange, committee advisors selected will gain the experience of supporting their world-wide colleagues to develop their communities as well as personal development in guiding organizational development, facilitating affiliate partnerships, and professional communications.

AffCom advisors can engage with the committee in a variety of capacities: Individuals with extensive movement experience can be engaged as Consultants for specific cases or initiatives by AffCom. Individuals with specific expertise may be engaged for short-term projects for training AffCom or Affiliates. They might also lead the Capacity Building initiatives for AffCom or affiliates. AffCom can request specific or all advisors to act as an observer in different cases to ensure neutrality & compliance with guidelines. Development of Policies: While advisors cannot create legally binding policies for the committee, they can help create policies that provide direction and support for the committee.
 * Consultant
 * Trainer
 * Observer
 * AffCom Support

Planning and Implementing Community Relations: The advisors are long-term wikimedians & also include influential community leaders who can be effective at spreading the word about initiatives and services.

Supporting Subcommittees: The advisors can support subcommittees that have assigned tasks in specific areas.

Other Tasks: Advisors can be engaged to address a specific need. Such engagements are usually short-lived and are disbanded as soon as their specific goals are met.


 * Key skills

We look for a healthy mix of different skill sets in our advisors, including the following key skills and experience:
 * 1) Strong understanding of the structure and work of Wikimedia affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * 2) Readiness to participate in political discussions on the role and future of affiliates, models of affiliation, and similar topics.
 * 3) Availability of up to 2 hours per week, and the time to participate in a monthly two-hour voice/video meeting
 * 4) International orientation and ability to work and communicate with other languages and cultures.
 * 5) Knowledge of different legal systems and experience in community building and organizing are a plus.
 * 6) Fluency in English is required; skills in other languages are a major plus.
 * 7) Experience with or in an active Wikimedia affiliate is a major plus.
 * 8) Strong track record of effective collaboration (such as evidenced skills at facilitation, mediation, negotiation, and so forth) is a major plus.
 * 9) Willingness to use one's real name in committee activities (including contacts with current and potential affiliates) when appropriate.


 * Selection process

As a reflection of our commitment to openness, transparency, and bilateral engagement with the Wikimedia community, the 2022 advisors selection process will include a public review and comment period. All applications must be posted on Meta between January 01 and January 31, 2022 at the nomination page, and the community will be invited to provide comments and feedback about each candidate. At the end of the nomination period, the applications will be voted on by the members of the committee, taking into account comments put forward by the committee's members, advisors, Wikimedia Foundation staff and board liaisons, and the community. A final decision will be made in February 2022, with new advisors expected to begin later that month.


 * How to apply

If you are interested in advising the committee, please submit your candidacy on the nomination page between January 01 to January 31, 2022. Your application must include the following information:
 * 1) Your full name and Wikimedia username
 * 2) A statement describing your relevant experience, skills, and motivation for joining the committee as an advisor.
 * 3) The advisor role you would like to serve
 * 4) Answers to the following three questions:
 * 5) How do you think affiliates work best together to partner on effective projects and initiatives?
 * 6) What do you see as the role of affiliates in the Wikimedia movement in the next three years?
 * 7) What do you feel you will bring as an advisor to the committee that makes you a uniquely qualified candidate?

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the committee. We are happy to chat or have a phone call with anyone about our work if this helps them decide to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested!

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Joyous Season
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I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!
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"why doesn't new entry show up?"
because Wikipedia Signpost/Series/RfA reform is built on Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Series which only has 16 slots. Cabayi (talk) 10:17, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy new year !
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No Spanish Municipality Without Photo
Hi. I was looking the official page of the project in es:wiki and popped into a call for help of yours from 2014. So I have admit that I'm late, to say the least. Mainly I don't go to es:wiki all that often, having moved to Commons and Data. But as I began the municipalities' photos project, I go there from time to time and check. I also check using Wikidata.

Situation is that we have found Spain to be an easy place to do this. Well, I'm being a bit over optimistic. What I mean is that legislation (we have freedom of panorama), road network and general physical safety in the country are very good for our goals.

That said, our main problems involve the size of our country (four Pennsylvanias, plus two archipielagoes and two cities on the wrong side of the Mediterranean sea) and the distribution of our collaborators.

Our excellent road network (of which we enjoy complaining about) has allowed my wife and me to drive for 500 km in a day taking pictures of ten different municipalities. Or visiting 100 places in Cáceres in four days. A companion from Daroca drove up to León province and back in one day, photographing all along. Another one, who lives in Ourense province, went to Algeciras with his grandmother. Then I told him about a missing municipality on the road (well, not really on their road, but there was a road to that place). This lady ended up taking pictures with her grandson somewhere in Andalusia. More or less, that's the spirit! I've learnt to stop asking why somebody is going from Madrid to Tarragona via Albacete.

With all pros and cons, we have managed to reach a point where ending is possible! There are less than 50 Spanish municipalities to do. Basically in the province of Salamanca (70%) and Western Andalusia (25%). The parts still to do are all away from home for all main contributors. We work mainly from Madrid, Ourense, Valencia, Asturias, Cantabria. Some people try to help from other places but they don't have time, car or both (anyway we've got help from Pamplona and Almería despite those problems).

I've seen your Pennsylvania page and it reminds me our numbers a lot. Some 2,500 municipalities in 120,000 square km. Spain has 8,200 in 505,000. Same proportion. I've seem that you cover South Pennsylvania better than the Northern part. My bet is that covering Pennsylvania is feasible. But to cover the whole USA you would need a real lot of friends! And well distributed. We have learned a couple of things on the way. First is double-check anything from Flickr. If possible, go and take your own stuff. Second, local people are not always available. A companion phoned and shamed a mayor into uploading pics of his town, but it took a whole day. And other mayors, librarians, priests, etc just don't care. So count on having to do it yourselves.

Running a WLM contest can help, but take into account that you don't need more wonderlful pics of Harrisburg, Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. Maybe you need pictures of So-ugly-nobody-ever-dared-to-picture-this-ville, that are not going to pass into the international phase of WLM (but surprisingly some unpictured places are really nice, Tornavacas for instance).

Well. Sorry for my saying way too little, way too late.

B25es (talk) 19:45, 2 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi! No, we didn't know about your activity in Pennsylvania, but we like people doing similar things. We solved the problem with page size by listing the to-do parts only. And also by using partial listings and maps. And... I've started talking about Signpost with my colleagues and we like the idea very much! We'll be in touch! B25es (talk) 18:53, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Thanks - and definitely keep in touch. Smallbones( smalltalk )

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Request of you as a registered user
Having recently posted at Jimmy Wales page, I would ask if you also might, at your convenience, post the following there on my behalf— Mr Wales, please see the following discussion, to see ongoing experiments aimed at revoking this original and longstanding right of anonymous editing of the encyclopedia that you founded with such creativity and foresight. Cheers, a former logging editor of long standing. 2601:246:C700:558:4934:BD1D:2B41:D139 (talk) 23:54, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee (AffCom) Member & Advisor Elections - Final Reminder for January 2022
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This is a friendly reminder that the Affiliations Committee – which is responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing and sustaining Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is seeking new members and advisors! The deadline to post your application on the Member nomination page and Advisor nomination is 31 January 2022.

If you know somebody you think may be interested, please share and encourage them to consider applying. If you have any questions please email affcom@wikimedia.org before the application deadline or reach out to any of the current members. Good luck to all the candidates!

On behalf of the committee, FULBERT (talk) 17:32, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Alternate crossword
Hi - someone reached out to let me know that a Wikipediocracy user has created a crossword this month since I can't make one. Not sure if you want to reach out to them or not but here's the link. Ganesha811 (talk) 13:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * - it looks to me like every answer is "Wales" or "Jimbo" or "Jimmy". An interesting concept for the humorous-crossword world, but ultimately a "one trick pony" that might give some of our readers 10 seconds of chuckles, but offend others. From the 1st issue of The Signpost that I've edited, I've stated that we won't use humor as a put down for groups of people. This would come close - so let's take a pass. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 13:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Your presence requested to confirm something on Meta for global MMS permission
Over yonder -- Martin Urbanec says "I'll wait for confirmation/clarification by @Smallbones before proceeding with granting the MMS flag". Not terribly urgent (since Bri ended up doing it this month anyway), but would be nice to have for next edition. jp×g 01:05, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Saturday Feb 5: ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon (and monthlong campaign)
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In the media
You may have been alerted to this already, but there's an ESPN article that deals (with a few minor errors) with the topic of sports vandalism on WP. Maybe a candidate for the "In the media" section of the next Signpost? Deor (talk) 20:27, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

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Probability of having a Wikipedia page
I'm working from my phone. So it's not perfect.



i've added the licence PAC2 (talk) 11:11, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * looks good to go to me. I'll check further just in case, but this should cover everything. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 12:39, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

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Arbitration
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You've got mail!
🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 22:58, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

You have got yourself a major admirer
SB, I think your excellent work at the signpost has made you a major wiki celebrity, please just a look at this entry, oh boy, they swear you are master maestro of all things pertaining to nabbing undisclosed paid editing. Celestina007 (talk) 12:49, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I guess I've been around this area of editing long enough that most other editors interested in UPE have heard of me. OTOH the same experience tells me that there are dozens of other editors who have more knowledge of the area than I do, but who can't or don't want to publish what they know in the open. That's where I come in. I can see what they have said in the bowels of Wikipedia and work up a simple (totally unsophisticated) explanation of what's going on. That at least keeps the issue in front of the community and folks can't really say "problem? What problem? I don't see a problem." Perhaps I've gone too far - maybe now people just think "oh, just another UPE. nothing special about that!" Let me know what you think, especially if (or when) you think I'm just "normalizing the proble"m. Thanks. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 16:02, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah! I see, your name is so synonymous with the Signpost that I tend to forget you also tackle possible UPE do you mind adding your name here? Celestina007 (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi, a small query
Hi there Smallbones. I am DTM, we have interacted very briefly sometimes over at The Signpost. I have a question. I don't know anyone on Wikipedia who is as involved in all this as you are.

Hypothetically, imagine an editor spends a lot of time on Wikipedia and people start noticing. Family. And they give me food. That doesn't fall into the case of paid editing does it. I know this is a extreme example which I would consider on the side of - no not paid editing. But I just needed some advice and second thoughts. Thanks. DTM (talk) 12:59, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi  Thanks for the question. I won't claim to have the last word on the matter, but the basics seem pretty straightforward. If you are just eating with your family the way that most people eat with their families - it's not paid editing. It could easily become a conflict of interest, however. So just declare it and respect what other editors say about your contribution.


 * The affected family members might include your parents, grandparents, siblings, offspring - your children and grandchildren, maybe aunts and uncles and first cousins, especially if you live in the same household. If you live in a culture where the extended family is highly valued, maybe a bit further than that.


 * That's one side - what seems allowable just from commonsense. The other side - what would be obvious paid editing: your 3rd cousin invites you to a special dinner to celebrate some achievement of yours - and you weren't even sure he knew your name! It's a feast fit for a king! And after the meal he tells you that he knows about your Wiki-skills and needs to have an article on himself written within the week, and one on his company within the month. It might be difficult, but I'd just tell him that's against the rules and that you've worked hard to earn your reputation on Wikipedia and don't want to lose it.


 * Hope that helps. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 13:41, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for this reply. It's given me some direction. I will frame something to put on my userpage and keep an eye out with respect to this in relation to my editing on Wikipedia. DTM (talk) 13:17, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

SignPost's readership?
Hello Smallbones, I was wondering how many views/readers the SignPost gets monthly? Is there anywhere I can see these statistics? Many thanks!--Chapmansh (talk) 20:53, 8 March 2022 (UTC)


 * - Pageview counts are available via the "external tools" section in every page's history. DS (talk) 15:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * That would set a minimum count. There's also some people who get the issue contents via Wikis other than enwp (although we would get a pagehit if they clicked through on an article). Plus some items are cross-posted to other emails and blogs such as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter and WMF Diff. I think there may be a few people who read via Atom RSS syndication of the single-page edition syndication, or our feed aggregator mediawiki-feeds.toolforge.org; I'm not sure if that would show up in the pageviews. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:47, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * One other consideration: mirrors and caches. Every issue is also archived at Internet Archive so theoretically anything could be read as it appeared at publication time, without any pagecounts changing; I have no idea if anybody is accessing it this way. At one point the Signpost editors appeared to have considered a Signpost mirror explained here, which would have completely bypassed page counts at enwp, though as far as I know this was never implemented. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:13, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Mar 27: Wiki-Tent Brunch in Brooklyn
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WikiWednesday tonight + Sunday Wiki-Tent Brunch
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ANI discussion involving you
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is WP:Signpost team ignores NPOV. Thank you. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:05, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

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 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
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 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
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Apr 24: Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder in Brooklyn
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Message
Hello Smallbones, what do you think about that the paid editors want us to hurry and check the draft because their movie is going to distribute soon in the US ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4DF7:0:5211:0:0:0:1 (talk) 16:18, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * one of them is trying to become an article reviewer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:14F:1FA:BD5A:0:0:369F:159F (talk) 14:05, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

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 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
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May 22: Wiki-Picnic and Hackathon in Brooklyn
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May 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
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Guideline and policy news
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Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:56, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

NYC Wiknic, June 26
Hold the date. Meetup/NYC Wiknic in Crotona Park, Sunday June 26.

Watch Meetup/NYC/Wiknic June 2022 for further details as they become available.

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DS alert us politics
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June 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Lindberg's going back to court
Greg Lindberg's conviction got overturned, there might be a new trial. Thought you might like to know. -Indy beetle (talk) 18:28, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
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Thu July 14: Astoria Beer Garden Wiki-Picnic
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Criminals editing Wikipedia article
I've given it a copyedit. No content changes, though I did tighten up the prose in a couple places where it was a little repetitive. Check the diffs. Couple long sentences left on the back of this; I suspect second copyedit will get those.

For an example of tightening up prose:

Before:

The editor in question made about 6 edits over 3 days a few years ago, all promoting a person with the same name as the accused shooter. The edits were about a rap singer who has now been identified in the mainstream press as the suspected shooter. It’s just the old garage-band-style advertisement that most editors here have seen dozens of times. To the best of my knowledge, this style of advert always traces back to the band members or the band’s manager.

After:

The editor in question made about six edits over three days a few years ago, all promoting a a rap singer who has now been identified by name in the mainstream press as the suspected shooter. The edits are fairly normal promotional edits: the standard garage-band-style advertisement that most editors here have seen dozens of times. To the best of my knowledge, this style of advertising always traces back to the band members or the band’s manager.

You get the idea. Just tightening it up a bit. I've left some notes. I've also removed the Norwegian shooter's name - it might be easy to figure out, but we don't need to state it openly. Removing it did lead to one of those over-long sentences, though.

On the whole, good content but it's still a little on the rough side. I'm not sure I want to remove all the roughness - it does speak to your passion - but it's probably best to remove any repetitive bits, and punch up the punctuation a bit. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8% of all FPs 01:00, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).



Administrator changes
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Arbitration
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Signpost
Copyedited your Serendipity article. No major changes, but I did some layout stuff. Check my work, if you would. You said you had plans for "Gallery", has it turned into "Serendipity", or is it still forthcoming? Just asking because I do like trying to fill in some missing content before publication where I can. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs 16:14, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

By the way, if you ever get to Russellton, Pennsylvania, go into the drug store near the bank. There's a fully-working soda fountain there, or there was last I checked. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs 16:19, 25 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hope you don't mind, but I savagely cut things down in the "From the archives" before you got the chance. Think that's enough cuts? I wanted to go through and see if I could find a better layout anyway. It was kind of ugly, and, well, I do featured content. I have to cut articles down anyway. (Often wonder if anyone actually reads the summaries, but...) Maybe I'll try treating FC as if it was DYK next time. A definition and one fact from each article. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs 00:48, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

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Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Featured content
How's this looking, length-wise, so far? It's still a bit long - there's a ridiculous number of FAs this month - but it's shorter than anything I've done so far by far Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs 03:13, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
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 * A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
 * The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
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A potential Signpost article
If you have time and are interested, please give this working draft of a Signpost article a glance, or more. Any suggestions? Would you like to co-author this? I have linked your disinformation report from the last edition of Signpost to convey a point about editing ecosystems. It was really thought-provoking. This article is much more abstract. Looking forward to hearing back. You can continue this conversation on Wikipedia wherever you deem most suitable for you. FacetsOfNonStickPans (talk) 17:26, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

My first reaction was (see top of this page)
 * DTM

but I doubt that I understood the article. Probably too abstract for me! Smallbones( smalltalk ) 19:57, 7 November 2022 (UTC)


 * This reminds me of a substack I just read by a NYT contributor who consumed magic mushrooms before attending a AUSA convention. This has elements of entertainment but is probably too "stream of consciousness" for the average reader. Still, they might run it. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 21:38, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The AUSA stunt sounds like a low-fi version of Hunter S. Thompson attending the RNC. ☆ Bri (talk) 00:15, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a nice set of succinct replies! Thank you. A lot of words and phrases, some new, packed into them. Too abstract or streamy, more or less Gonzo, the need for me to say I've never had magic mushrooms. FacetsOfNonStickPans (talk) 10:19, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with gonzo journalism. It would probably even get run by the Editor-in-Chief (and I'd put a word in for it). But if you're going to go for it, go all the way so there's no question that it was by intent. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:54, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * , what did you mean by "go all the way so there's no question that it was by intent". Intent related to submitting it to Signpost or intent in relation to the reason for writing the article or the conclusion of the article ...? Even though I wasn't able to narrow down upon the exact meaning of the entire line myself, I took this away from it "go all the way"...
 * When I interacted with you three above I had written what I have now labelled as part 1. I will continue expanding the article. Submitting it to Signpost is still the end goal. FacetsOfNonStickPans (talk) 20:14, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Just a lighthearted way of saying that (condition 1) full-on gonzo journalism is recognizable, and there's no question that it is what was intended. The problem is if (condition 2) you're trying to be serious but it comes across as gonzo, or if (condition 3) you just intentionally sprinkle it with gonzo but it wasn't taken by the reader as clearly by intent and it appears to be condition #2. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:56, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!!!! (Re: Alexander McClay Williams)
Thank you so much for, well, thanking me for writing the article on Alexander McClay Williams! (I also apologize for taking so long to reach out.) I feel like stories like his, of miscarriages of justice and lethal oppression-based decisions in court, are so important to tell in American history. Honestly, it's that kind of encouragement from other users that makes it easier to motivate myself to tell those stories. I have a few more semi-related ones I've been considering; I hope to finish their articles within the year.

P.S. I just published a new, quite similar one on Henry McCollum and Leon Brown. It has not been reviewed yet, but I find it to be just as important of a story to tell; if you choose to check it out, I hope you enjoy it! (It's a loooong one, though.)

Take care - Afddiary (talk) 15:19, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
 * A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Another Darby Meeting photo
Mary and I were recently there for a talk about Martha Schofield. Happy winter holidays! Dorevabelfiore (talk) 23:27, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Tulip mania at FAR
I have nominated Tulip mania for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 15:58, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Dec 28: WikiWed Salon (+ Wikipedia Day on Jan 15)
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Can I get early feedback on something?
Do you think this has any promise? I'm not sure if I should pursue it. I'm not even sure if I mean it entirely seriously. Is it a commentary or a humour piece? Maybe both, Vonnegut-style (I wish, hello Cohoes). My my last attempt at Signpost humour... didn't go so well. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:28, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It's definitely more humour than serious now. For a more serious revision see . I honestly can't tell what's better right now. ☆ Bri (talk) 09:54, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

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Sun Jan 15: Wikipedia Day returns to NYC!
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes
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 * Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

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 * The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

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 * The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
 * In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
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Photo usage on DYK
Hi Smallbones, I wanted to let you know that your photo of the Bethel AME Church in Springtown, NJ will appear in DYK 2/15 and 2/16. Congratulations! See Prep area 2 here. Dwkaminski (talk) 16:12, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Feb 15: WikiWednesday Salon in Brooklyn
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Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Administrator changes
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 * A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news
 * The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
 * The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
 * A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
 * Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
 * The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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 * Good heavens, are you an administrator? Whoda thunk it. Anyway, you've got mail Coretheapple (talk) 15:50, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

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Guideline and policy news
 * A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11.
 * The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
 * A link to the user's page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on . This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration
 * The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
 * A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Professionals Inc, aka ABTACH Ltd
I was re-reading your excellent and in-depth piece at The "largest con in corporate history"?, and it struck me that the Wiki Professionals Inc scammers briefly covered here, where they are noted to be fronts for Pakistan-based ABTACH Ltd, and its numerous subdomains, would merit your exceptional level of treatment. I was recently involved in the latest WP:COIN discussion of their activities, and they have become utterly brazen in their multi-layered Wikipedia-centered scamming. I would note that the same outfit has been called out by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for scamming businesses over trademarks, and they are undoubtedly engaged in the same sorts of blackmail/extortion schemes with Wikipedia. Cheers! BD2412 T 04:03, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Sat: Earth Day Edit-a-thon + Sun: Wiki-Picnic
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Potential minor "disinformation"/citogenesis
Perhaps you'll find Possible false quote on the Bob Marley Wikipedia page interesting. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:15, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

SP article

 * Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Opinion

I was reading through, and one thing that stood out as missing was an explanatory sentence linking the timeline between: bradv has been gone for 8 months - and - this is bradv's lengthy response.

To which the reader's likely response is: "Oh, he's back? I wonder what the sequence of events was there."

I hope this helps : )  - jc37 09:29, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia Editor Hat
like 15 years ago you posted a picture of your dog with a wikipedia editor hat. that hat looks clean as duck and i want it. how do i obtain or purchase one? Kyoto7467 (talk) 15:22, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news
 * Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration
 * The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Courcelles

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
 * As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news
 * Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous
 * Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to.

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June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan!
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).



Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news
 * Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration
 * Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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July 19 WikiWednesday + New York Botanical Garden Edit-a-thon (July 29)
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).



Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AlisonW · Amberrock · Closedmouth · Scottywong

Interface administrator changes
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Technical news
 * The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools.
 * Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist.

Arbitration
 * The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
 * The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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WikiWednesday (Aug 23) and Governors Island Wiki-Picnic (Sun Aug 27)
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
 * A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news
 * Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.

Arbitration
 * The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous
 * Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Sep 20: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting
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An apology
Apology accepted. I may have been too direct myself. Thanks. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 02:40, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Sun Oct 1: NYC Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023
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Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York (Oct 21–22) and Wikidata Day (Oct 29)
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).



Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news

Technical news
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections.  is the reserve commissioner.
 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous
 * The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Nov 15: WikiWednesday Salon + Wikimedia NYC Executive Director job
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Wed Dec 6: Hacking Night + job listing
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
 * The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
 * Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Thu Jan 4: Hacking Night + Wikipedia Day soon
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A solstice greeting
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Good article reassessment for Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:15, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Julia W · Marasmusine · PBS



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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Enterprisey · Izno · SilkTork

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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Maxim
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Enterprisey · Izno · SilkTork

Arbitration
 * Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
 * The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous
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Disinformation report -- clarify?
The low number of articles posted in the main article space may be due to a lack of trying. I'm not sure "lack of trying" conveys what you meant to say, or maybe I'm just not getting it. Are you saying they got $1,000,000 receipts on stuff that was in article space, but already has been deleted? Or went to draft to die? Or was never actually posted on-wiki? ☆ Bri (talk) 23:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It's hard for me to tell the three apart. It's probably all three, but wighted for the bottom two, draft to die, and not even submitted to draft. This may have changed over the last year, but it looked to me like almost none made it into article space. Let me know how you'd write it or if you think I'm wrong. email is best. time for dinner. 23:36, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ameliorate! · Ancheta Wis · Anthony Bradbury (deceased) · Cobi · Ev · Moondyne · Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes
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CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news
 * Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
 * Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
 * Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
 * The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with Unreferenced. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

OceanGate
First, please read WP:BRD. Second, read the discussion at Talk:OceanGate. We already discussed this source in context and refuted it. If you want to change the status of the company, then seek consensus on the talk page of the article rather than attempt to edit war to your preferred version. As of now, there's no consensus to change it. So, try to get consensus. I welcome your contributions to the talk page discussion. I'm reinstating the status quo, pending the outcome of additional discussion. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 23:21, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * So you choose to edit war instead? Nice. Continuing to revert while discussion is ongoing is very much against our principles here. So now you attempt to brute force your way, attempting to force a no consensus result to be consensus in favor of your preferred version because you're right and everyone else is wrong? Seriously? Come on. In the very least you could revert yourself while discussion is still ongoing. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm putting new material in the article, as well as "old" very reliably sourced material. You are doing nothing but reverting. Don't do that. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 00:06, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Per WP:NEGOTIATE and WP:STATUSQUO, I'll reiterate that you need to revert your addition until you gain consensus to add it. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:11, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg East718 · Isabelle Belato · Mzajac · Staecker · Stan Shebs · Sugarfish · Tamzin



Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
 * Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news
 * The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
 * Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer
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DYK for Ruth Gottesman
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).



Administrator changes
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 * An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
 * The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
 * Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11)
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Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg JohnOwens · Killiondude · MelanieN · Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Joe Roe

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news
 * Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
 * A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Precious anniversary
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May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director
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greetings sharp eyed editor
There is something going on. I have described it and provided citations at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Liz#Article_Draft_Removed,_but_article_exists Thank you for casting an AGF but WTH eye at it. Best, Ellin Beltz (talk) 05:19, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2: Hacking Sunday (+preview of June 8 Wiknic)
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Sat June 8: Governors Island Wiknic
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana · Mets501 · Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana · Warofdreams



Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news
 * The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
 * The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous
 * WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace citation needed tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

This just in
From the top of my recent news search: Wikimedia Foundation urges Pakistan to restore access to Wikipedia. But no, that was still last year. Annoying. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:28, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * did you get the one about Wiki getting a hole in one in New Zealand, or the Miki bus joining the Wiki Wiki buses? Smallbones( smalltalk ) 10:35, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Doesn't ring a bell. But the Pakistan thing is gone now, maybe a temporary glitch. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:46, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

June 26: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Wikipedia_Signpost/Drafts/Maintaining_ru.WP_in_the_face_of_a_shortage_of_admins
Hello. I have pinged you from Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Submissions. Could you read my draft and maybe include it to the next The Signpost issue? MBH (talk) 00:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).



Administrator changes
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Fri July 19: Wikicurious in NYC, Editing Wikipedia for Beginners
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Affiliations Committee News (April-June 2024)
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Quarterly newsletter sharing news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.

Affiliates Strategy Updates: Adoption of a new affiliate health criteria and changes to User Groups recognition process

Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: Recognition of Madagascar, Senegal, Republic of Congo, and Namibia user groups

Affiliate Activities and Compliance Report: Activities reports around the world

AffCom Conflict Intervention: Six active conflicts, no new reports for Q4

AffCom Movement Contribution: AffCom engagement at Wikimedia Summit and ESEAP Conference

AffCom Administration: Officers elections and departing members

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