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Growth team newsletter #29
Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Conversations
The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.

This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.

Impact Module
At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback. 

Add a Link
We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. 

We have a few Wikipedias remaining:
 * German and English Wikipedia will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.
 * There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.

Community Configuration

 * We shared Community Configuration 2.0 plans with technical stakeholders. 🖂
 * Initial Community Configuration design ideas have been shared and discussed with community members.
 * A basic Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge.
 * Developers can find some initial proof of concept code shared on gitlab.

Mentorship
When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. 

We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. 

We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved. 

It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. 

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Best of luck
Hey Wugs! I just wanted to wish you luck in the ArbCom elections. This time around, you were the only no-brainer, easy vote for me, though I did support several others with some additional consideration and/or research. I've had some concerns about the growing remit of the committee in very recent times, so it's more important to me than ever that we have thoughtful, carefully deliberative hands at the wheel. That's you, for my money, and I just wanted to let you know how glad I am you are standing again, so you know the level of appreciation out there, for at least one community member. My fingers are crossed that I'll be able to congratulate you on the start of a new term soon, as well! SnowRise let's rap 03:32, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the kind words, . I'm glad you did some research and came to support other candidates too; it's a good field. I wish we had more people step up more often, but it's not surprising why we don't. I'm not too worried about the outcome either way though. Worst case I get to tinker away at some workflow peeves for a while in the hopes of making life easier. Best case most of my workload gets foisted onto a new cohort eager to learn the joys of political office. Neither seems that bad. We'll see what's in the cards come mid-December. — Wug·a·po·des 09:16, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-49
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Recent changes
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 * Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events
 * Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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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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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ajpolino · Lourdes · Mairi · RockMFR · Somno · WilyD
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox · Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox · Opabinia regalis

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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Question from Afresque (20:22, 9 December 2023)
My father was a well known Cuban artist. I want to start writing his info on wiki as he passed away two years ago. Is there a structure or template to follow for writing this? --Afresque (talk) 20:22, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * See Help:Your first article, and especially Help:Your first article – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-50
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Recent changes
 * On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons.

Problems
 * There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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Question from ValleyLol (17:11, 15 December 2023)
Can I edit the FNAF page? --ValleyLol (talk) 17:11, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, not yet. The article Five Nights at Freddy's is protected from editing by new accounts. You can make an an edit request on the article talk page if you have a suggestion. — Wug·a·po·des 18:54, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Deleteing a Account
How do I delete my Wikipedia account? Matthew Campbell (talk) 20:46, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Matthew, at the moment it's not possible to delete accounts. Typically people just stop using their account. — Wug·a·po·des 20:52, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh... Ok Matthew Campbell (talk) 20:09, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-51
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Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

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Message regarding Capricorn from Daask
In Capricorn's list of available redirect options: I see "Works of art and works generally, To: Writer" When I check this box, it adds Template:R from writer. I was expecting it to add Template:R to writer or similar, which appears to have been deleted. I would probably move it to the group "Related information, From" where Template:R from person is currently found. Daask (talk) 16:57, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Neeen (11:10, 19 December 2023)
How many time would it take for a boat that is bigger then the titanic to rise up --Neeen (talk) 11:10, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
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Nomination for deletion of Template:COVID19 sanctions
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WugBot and the GAN Report page
Wugapodes, the GAN Report page wasn't updated on 27 December; it's lately moved from updating at 01:00 to 11:08 UTC, but yesterday was a complete miss. Is there a reason why it switched times, and can we get back to the traditional 01:00, or is 11:08 the new normal? This change in times also has affected the WugBot function that moves approved DYK nominations (now at :36 after the hour, and sometimes every hour, rather than every odd hour on the hour).

I figure that there's something up with the times that of various bots run; I've noticed that Lowercase sigmabot III, which normally archives WT:DYK at around 02:00, moved a week ago to shortly after 09:00, and since then has been archiving DYK at around 14:00.

Anyway, I thought I should inquire about WugBot's new schedule. Hope you're having a good holiday season. Good luck in the Arb elections, which may have its scruting done sometime tomorrow, or at least one scrutineer finishing by then... BlueMoonset (talk) 01:58, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry the changes were related to something discussed on the DYK talk page and I didn't realize the impact it would have on timing. Basically, the old system for running bots is getting shut down and I had to migrate to the new system. The old system let me be really specific about timing, but the new one seems to be slightly more random without some more tweaking. In general the stated preference on the technical side is to give broad timelines of like "daily" and "hourly" and let the server schedule things to avoid load spikes unless timing is critical to the task, so that's probably why a lot of bots are shuffling their timing. — Wug·a·po·des 00:40, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Ldrogin (19:00, 28 December 2023)
I repeated a donation and was asked to join the edit function. Busy with FT job and life but I do use Wikipedia and am happy to contribute. My work is in the energy transition in NY State.

Please advise how to get started. I am not the most computer savvy person.

Thank you. --Ldrogin (talk) 19:00, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! We always appreciate new editors, and hope you find some spare time to help maintain the encyclopedia! On your talk page I left a welcome and some links to our tutorials. You might also like this short guide on small edits you can make while reading to help improve content without needing to distract from other parts of your life. Hopefully this helps, and let me know if you have any other questions! — Wug·a·po·des 00:59, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting
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Hi Wugapodes! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. Best wishes with all your ArbCom work! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb }&#125;  talk

&#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 07:10, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Happy solstice, and thanks for the image! It's always a busy time, but it's fun getting to visit old friends and reconnect with others. I hope you've had a restful holiday, and look forward to what you accomplish in the new year! — Wug·a·po·des 01:38, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Admins and edit filters
Hello friend. A minor correction, if I may. and unbundles from sysop the ability to view non-public parts of our anti-spam infrastructure. I think all admins are able to view private filters by default (you can confirm by going to Special:UserGroupRights, searching "abusefilter-view-private", and jumping to the 4th result), so I am not sure this statement is accurate. Just wanted to let you know in case you want to strengthen your nomination statement. Happy holidays :) – Novem Linguae (talk) 00:56, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hmm, looking into this, it seems like the table at WP:UAL is a mess when compared to Special:ListGroupRights. The short version is that I meant "unbundles" in the same way that page mover unbundles moving pages without leaving a redirect: it's an ability granted by default to administrators but which we spun out to non-sysop user groups. The long answer is that the technical implementation is a bit wonky. Sysop comes with  outright (despite UAL not listing that on the table), but it is also granted by the Edit Filter groups. UAL says that EFH and EFM both grant , but Special:LGR doesn't have that listed. I gather that multiple rights allow viewing private filters, and both EFM and EFH are ways to "unbundle" that ability from admins even if the specific right that allows that differs. — Wug·a·po·des 01:35, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * When I think of unbundle, I think of something like unbundling autopatrol from admins, which removed it from their toolkit and made it a separate right. But not worth quibbling over. I just wanted to make sure you knew that regular admins that are not EFM or EFH can still view private filters. Anyway, hope that helps. See you around! – Novem Linguae (talk) 01:52, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

 * Thanks, and happy holidays to you too! Hope the season has been treating you well too, and I'm looking forward to another year of building the encyclopedia. — Wug·a·po·des 03:55, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

ACE2023 thanks
Hello Wugapodes, thank you for being a candidate for the arbitration committee. Unfortunately, you have not been elected to the committee. The results of the election are available here: Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023. Best regards, — xaosflux  Talk 01:45, 30 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up and for your continued work as a commissioner, . — Wug·a·po·des 03:40, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

December music
Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl (mentioned in November) said something wise on Copland's talk, - yes, regarding a soft(er) stance towards infoboxes. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

A new church year began (listen), - a new era? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:14, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Back to arbitration (and I probably don't have to tell you, but for equal opportunity with the other candidates): did you check out the history of the infobox of Callas? Compare Jessye Norman, Kathleen Ferrier and Jenny Lind. Did you check out the history of Copland? Compare Max Reger, Max Beckschäfer, Colin Mawby (from today's story), and Benjamin Britten (who died OTD). What's the difference? If what you see changes your answer to my question, feel free to change, and ping me. I would like to see a way to avoid in the future hundreds of editors commenting on Mozart RfCs, just to kind of restore the infobox he had ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:41, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:29, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

... and today, to Paris (29 Nov) with a visit to the Palais Garnier, - to match the story of Medea Amiranashvili, - don't miss listening to her expressive voice. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Pics up to 3 December (with my shadow in one of them), and a story about Beethoven in memory of his birth. When the arb who wrote the infoboxes case - in 2015! - I hoped these infobox wars were over, really. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for what you do and stand for! I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:11, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Happy Holidays, and thanks for the story! I live far from most of my family, so I've been traveling to see them for the holiday. Nice to see everyone, but all the travel takes its toll. I hope you're having a good season as well, and I look forward to working together in the new year! — Wug·a·po·des 03:49, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Happy it was: our Christmas singing (of my user's infobox music "singen, singen") was pictured. I uploaded more pics, with Christmas trees and related artworks, and I have two women on the Main page (for a sad reason). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:03, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!
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Question from MuseCPA447 (21:30, 30 December 2023)
Hello, I have loads of useful information about people who are making positive changes in the world. How do I submit this information to Wikipedia? --MuseCPA447 (talk) 21:30, 30 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Consider finding a job that doesn't involve regurgitating canned PR blurbs onto Wikipedia articles. Rider of Doors (talk) 09:22, 31 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Since I was here to post above and saw this here, I've gone ahead and welcomed this user on their talk page, and tried to answer their question there with the right mix of encouragement as well as caution if they are indeed promotional editors as Rider of Door's answer anticipates. Martinp (talk) 17:02, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I appreciate the help (and the lack of biting in your message). — Wug·a·po·des 06:09, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Dennis Brown
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Aoidh · HJ Mitchell · Sdrqaz · Spicy · ToBeFree · Vanamonde93 · Z1720
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Maxim
 * 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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Happy new ye·ar !
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Tech News: 2024-02
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Recent changes
 * mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.

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Question from Marinos Ioannides 94 (10:44, 14 January 2024)
Hi there, not sure how this mentoring works, but I wonder if you could look at some of the edits I have made to see if they are broadly correct, and recommend changes / improvements.

Thanks in advance! --Marinos Ioannides 94 (talk) 10:44, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, I looked through a couple, and they're very helpful! Thanks for your contributions, and let me know if you have other questions or need help with anything. Happy editing! — Wug·a·po·des 18:32, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your contributions as part of ArbCom. Martianmister (talk) 20:05, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I came here to echo that thanks. I imagine it is a bit frustrating to narrowly miss out on being re-elected (though you may well come to realize it was a lucky escape!), but I wanted to chime in with my appreciation for your contributions there, in particular your thoughfulness on complex problems (irrespective of whether anyone in particular agrees with your specific conclusions). Martinp (talk) 16:43, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks and ! It's never fun to lose, but our electoral processes only work if we have people willing to be told "thanks for volunteering but we went with someone else". Honestly, I'm happy we had so many good editors step up that I got more free time to do the content work I've been putting off. Thanks again for the well wishes, and I hope you and your loved ones have a good and productive new year! — Wug·a·po·des 06:03, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, I would rather not grouse at length and thereby undermine the appropriate graciousness of your reaction, but suffice it to say, I still think the outcome is a real shame. Without wishing to sound like a pessimist or a contrarian, and without wishing to bad mouth any of particular volunteers on the committee, I think the remit of ANI has grown by unprecedented leaps and bounds in the last few years, while simultaneously both the level of overall experience and the sense of self-restraint for the average Arb has been on a slight downward trend.  I was really hoping to see you in the mix for the next cycle as a reliably steady hand, and I'm pretty surprised by the result.  All that said, at least we get your energy fed back into day-to-day editorial and administrative work, so an upshot there!  Thanks for your dedication to the project in all its forms, Wug! <b style="color:#19a0fd;">S</b><b style="color:#66c0fd">n</b><b style="color:#99d5fe;">o</b><b style="color:#b2dffe;">w</b><b style="color:#B27EB2;">Rise</b><b style="color:#d4143a"> let's rap</b> 23:45, 1 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Realizing I'm a bit late to the party, but I wanted to say thank you for your work on the Committee. I think it's a loss for us that you weren't re-elected, although I appreciate your gracious take on it above. Regardless of what titles you carry, though, I'm grateful for your thoughtful and diligent work and I hope you continue to do it. Take care. MastCell Talk 01:32, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

2024
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Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

[[User talk:Gerda Arendt#2024|Happy New Year

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Same location pictured as 2019. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

What do you think about the Benjamin Britten conversation? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:26, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-03
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
 * You can now thank edits made by bots.
 * An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module was deprecated and replaced with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac/Evidence. Please add your evidence by January 30, 2024, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">Jazz</i> talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:55, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Feedback requested
Hi, Wugapodes! I've been working on a draft proposal over at 2024 administrative elections proposal – I opposed in 2021, for similar reasons to you, but I've come around since to the idea that it's necessary to deal with the hostility problem, so I've been working on this in the background. If you have any ideas on how to make it better, I'm all ears :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:46, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-04
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Problems
 * A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)