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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Modussiccandi
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * From the team: We stand in solidarity with Ukraine


 * News and notes: Of safety and anonymity


 * Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera


 * Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary


 * Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps


 * Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks


 * In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff


 * Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures


 * Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond


 * Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now


 * Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon


 * Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors


 * Traffic report: War, what is it good for?


 * Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine


 * Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."


 * From the archives: Burn, baby burn


 * Essay: Yes, the sky is blue


 * Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja


 * On the bright side: The bright side of news

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