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The Signpost: 6 November 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015


 * In the media: UK gov bigwig accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man


 * News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups


 * Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk


 * WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023


 * News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia


 * Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades


 * Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.


 * Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia


 * Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare

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



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg 0xDeadbeef
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Tamzin
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pppery
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss · TheresNoTime

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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The Signpost: 20 November 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup


 * News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health


 * Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads


 * Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom


 * Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships

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